" In November Holles and Whitelocke headed the commission appointed to treat with the king at Oxford.

He was sent to the king at Oxford both in 1643 and 1644 to negotiate terms, and the secret communications with Charles on the latter occasion were the foundation of a charge of treason brought against Whitelocke and Denzil Holles later.

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.

By his first wife he had ten children, of whom one son, Henry, survived him and became 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dying in 1691 without surviving male issue ; the title then became extinct and the estates passed to his third daughter Margaret, wife of John Holles, Earl of Clare, created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1694.

When brought upon his habeas corpus before the latter court Holles offered with the rest to give bail, but refused sureties for good behaviour, and argued that the court had no jurisdiction over offences supposed to have been committed in parliament.

Holles had at first been committed and remained for some time a close prisoner in the Tower of London.

Though he was at first named one of the managers for the impeachment of Strafford, Holles had little share in his prosecution.

On the outbreak of the Civil War Holles, who had been made lieutenant of Bristol, was sent with Bedford to the west against the marquess of Hertford, and took part in the unsuccessful siege of the latter at Sherborne Castle.

Notwithstanding his activity in the field for the cause of the parliament, the appeal to arms had been distasteful to Holles from the first.

Not long afterwards, however, on 3 June, these proceedings were annulled ; and Holles, who had then returned and was a prisoner in the Tower with the rest of the eleven members, was discharged.

Pepys remarks on 14 November: " Sir G. Cartaret tells me that just now my Lord Holles had been with him and wept to think in what a condition we are fallen.

The Holles / Clare estates, meanwhile, together with his Newcastle dukedom, were inherited by Lord Lincoln, from whom the Duke had by then become estranged.

It had passed from Margaret Holles, née Cavendish, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Newcastle, to her daughter Henrietta Cavendish Harley.

She had two children who survived infancy, Harriot Holles Lennox ( 1765 – 1802 / 4 ) and George Lewis Lennox ( b. 1771 ).

During the negotiations, the English commissioners ( Denzil Holles and Henry Coventry ) offered to return New Netherland in exchange for their sugar factories on the coast of Surinam, that had been taken by Abraham Crijnssen earlier in 1667.

The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont ( d. 1659 ), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament ; and another was William Pierrepont ( 1608 – 1679 ), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne.

By summer 1643, Bedford had aligned himself with the parliamentary " peace party " headed by Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, which advocated a settlement with Charles I.

Because of his Non-conformist views he was ejected from his living at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, going on to become a private chaplain to Denzil Holles and John Maynard, both veteran Parliamentarians.

According to Worcester, about the year 1775, town records started appearing with the town's name spelled as " Hollis " ( after Thomas Hollis ), and both names were used until about 1815, after which, only the name " Hollis " appears "... while Holles, the name of the Duke of Newcastle, has passed into merited oblivion.

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.

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

On 2 March 1629, when Sir John Finch, the speaker, refused to put Sir John Eliot's Protestations and was about to adjourn the House by the king's command, Holles together with another member, Sir Walter Long, thrust him back into the chair and swore " he should sit still till it pleased them to rise.

On 29 October Holles, with Eliot and Valentine, was transferred to the Marshalsea.

According to Laud he held out to Strafford hopes of saving his life if he would use his influence with the king to abolish episcopacy, but the earl refused, and Holles advised Charles that Strafford should demand a short respite, of which he would take advantage to procure a commutation of the death sentence.

Together with Pym, Holles drew up the Grand Remonstrance, and made a vigorous speech in its support on 22 November 1641, in which he argued for the right of one House to make a declaration, and asserted: " If kings are misled by their counsellors we may, we must tell them of it.

In June 1643 he was accused of complicity in Waller's plot, but swore to his innocency ; and his arrest with others of the peace party was even proposed in August, when Holles applied for a pass to leave the country.

The king's successes, however, for the moment put a stop to all hopes of peace ; and in April 1644 Holles addressed the citizens of London at the Guildhall, calling upon them " to join with their purses, their persons, and their prayers together to support the army of Essex.

As leader of the moderate ( or Presbyterian ) party Holles now came into violent antagonism with Cromwell and the army faction.

In return Holles was charged with having held secret communications with the king at Oxford and with a correspondence with Lord Digby ; but after a long examination by the House he was pronounced innocent on 19 July 1645.

On 16 June 1647 eleven members including Holles were charged by the army with various offences against the state, followed on 23 June by fresh demands for their impeachment and for their suspension, which was refused.

Holles was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the king at Newport on 18 September 1648.

In March 1654 Cromwell, who in alarm at the plots being formed against him was attempting to reconcile some of his opponents to his government, sent Holles a pass " with notable circumstances of kindness and esteem.

Holles took part in the conference with George Monck ( later Duke of Albemarle ) at Northumberland House, when the Restoration was directly proposed, and with the secluded members took his seat again in parliament on 21 February 1660.

But Holles, declaring that he could not render the king or his country better service, put the Protestations to the House from memory, all the members rising to their feet and applauding.

" After the failure of the attempt by the court to gain over Holles and others by offering them posts in the administration, he was one of the " five members " impeached by the king.

On the occasion of the Commons petitioning the king in favour of an alliance with the Dutch, Holles addressed a Letter to Van Beuninghen at Amsterdam on " Love to our Country and Hatred of a Common Enemy ," enlarging upon the necessity of uniting in a common defence against French aggression and in support of the Protestant religion.

The French king therefore found it easy to form a temporary alliance with Russell, Holles and the opposition leaders.

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 ).

The school was established in 1711, when a trust for its endowment as a Christian foundation was created under the will of Lady Eleanor Holles, daughter of John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, which prescribed that money from her estate should be used to set up a school " to produce young women of grace and integrity ".

Holles at once grasped the full significance of the king's action, and after the triumphant return to the House of the five members, on 11 January 1642, threw himself into still more pronounced opposition to the arbitrary policy of the crown.

Holles was also appointed a commissioner at the Treaty of Uxbridge in January 1645 and endeavoured to overcome the crucial difficulty of the militia by postponing its discussion altogether.

Aware of the plans of the extreme party, Holles threw himself at the king's feet and implored him not to waste time in useless negotiations, and he was one of those who stayed behind the rest in order to urge Charles to compliance.

Holles at this time ( 1677-1679 ) engaged, as did many others, in dangerous intrigue with Courtin and Barillon, the French envoys, and Louis XIV ; he refused, however, the latter's presents on the ground that he was a member of the council, having been appointed to Sir William Temple's new modelled cabinet in 1679.

The station was to be the southern terminus of an underground railway line planned to run from Wood Green station ( now Alexandra Palace ) via Finsbury Park and King's Cross and was originally to be located at the corner of Stanhope Street and Holles Street, north of the Strand.

He was therefore a warm supporter of the Grand Remonstrance, and was marked out as one of the five impeached members ( the others being Pym, Arthur Haselrig, Denzil Holles and William Strode ) whose attempted arrest brought at last the opposing parties into open collision.

Four years later in 1921 Ryan moved to Dublin where he opened a practice at Harcourt Street, specialising in skin diseases at the Skin and Cancer Hospital on Holles Street.

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.

The first plaque was unveiled in 1867 to commemorate Lord Byron at his birthplace, 24 Holles Street, Cavendish Square.

Northumberland encouraged his brother to write a letter exposing the royalist plot to rescue Strafford, and then, at John Pym's urging, agreed to allow Denzil Holles and John Hampden to publish this letter.

With the coming of the Restoration in 1660, Northumberland attempted to re-enter politics by organizing the Suffolk House cabal, which included Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, Denzil Holles, Oliver St John, and William Pierrepont, and which hoped to force on Charles II the terms offered to Charles I at Newport.