The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

* 1599 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer ( d. 1680 )

** Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer ( b. 1599 )

* October 31 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer ( d. 1680 )

Pym, John Hampden and Denzil Holles were the leading members of the committee from the Commons.

His second son was the politician Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles.

Early on, he showed himself antagonistic to the court, to Roman Catholicism, and to the extension of the royal prerogative, and was coupled by Charles II with Denzil Holles as " stiff and sullen men ," who would not yield against their convictions to his solicitations.

He opposed Charles I from the start, and took a leading part in the disorderly scene of 2 March 1629, when the speaker, Sir John Finch, was held down in the chair after refusing to put the resolution of Sir John Eliot against arbitrary taxation and innovations in religion ( see Denzil Holles ).

Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles of Ifield, ca.

Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC ( 31 October 1599 – 17 February 1680 ) was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.

The favourite son of his father and endowed with great natural abilities, Denzil Holles grew up under advantageous circumstances.

The peerage became extinct in the person of his grandson Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles, in c. 1692, the estates devolving on John Holles ( 1662 – 1711 ), 4th Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.

Denzil Holles portrayed by James Bolam in the UK 2003 English Civil War film To Kill a King directed by Mike Barker

* Patricia Crawford, Denzil Holles ISBN 0-901050-52-0

Charles I tried to arrest him for treason on 3 January 1642, along with John Hampden, Denzil Holles, John Pym and William Strode.

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Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles ( 1599-1680 ), whose London home was used by opposition peers to strategize against the growth of Catholic influence in England.

He coordinated his efforts with a group of other peers who were displeased with the possibility of a Catholic succession ; this group met at the home of Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, and included Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg, James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and George Savile, 1st Viscount Halifax.

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In 1716 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Shropshire and of Clandon in the County of Surrey, with remainder, failing male issue of his own, to his uncle Denzil Onslow, and afterwards, to the male heirs of his father.

* Francis Denzil Edward Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton ( 1866 – 1938 )

Denzil Holles was created Baron Holles of Ifield in 1661, after his part in the restoration of Charles II of England.

* January 9 – John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( d. 1711 )

The Holles family descended from John Holles, 1st Baron Haughton.

The Duke's sister, Lady Grace Holles ( d. 1700 ), married Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham ( see the Earl of Chichester for earlier history of the Pelham family ).

* John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( 1564 – 1637 ) was comptroller of the household to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

* John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare ( 1595 – 1666 ), eldest son of the 1st Earl

* John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1662 – 1711 ) died without male issue, and his titles were extinct

* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1693 – 1768 ), a nephew of John Holles, 1st Duke, died without male issue, and his father's Laughton Barony and Baronetcy, his Earldom and his first Dukedom went extinct

Pelham, Newcastle's younger brother, was a younger son of the 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton and his wife, the former Lady Grace Holles, daughter of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and Grace Pierrepont.

* Baron Holles

On 20 April 1661 he was created Baron Holles of Ifield in Sussex, and became henceforth one of the leading members of the Upper House.

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1797 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English military commander ( b. 1717 )

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )

* 1848 – Randall Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1930 )

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

* Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton 1952 – 1955

* Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn 1965 – 1988

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer also fought at Poitiers under The Black Prince.

* Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare ( 1815 – 1895 )

The re-opened Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen | Duveen Gallery, ( 1980 )

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

* 1678 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat ( d. 1757 )

* 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist ( b. 1824 )

On 18 October, he was created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby.

* William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, General, British Army ( Field Marshal, Australian Army )

* Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force ( later Marshal of the Royal Air Force )

* The Coming Race ( 1871 ) ( reprinted as Vril: The Power of the Coming Race ) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and Oxford's father-in-law, c. 1571.

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, daughter of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, and wife of the first Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, was an author, philanthropist and an advocate of woman's interests.

Mountbatten was married on 18 July 1922 to Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

* 1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer ( d. 1781 )

* 1781 – John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer ( d. 1844 )