Holles (of Ifield), Denzil Holles, 1st Baron 1599-1680
English statesman

Born in Houghton, Nottinghamshire, he entered parliament in 1624, and in 1629 was one of the members who held the Speaker in his chair while resolutions were passed against Arminianism, tonnage and poundage. For this he was fined a thousand marks, and lived seven or eight years in exile. A leader of the Presbyterians, he was one of the five members whom Charles I attempted to arrest in 1642. During the Civil War, he was an advocate of peace. For proposing, in 1647, to disband the army he was accused of treason, but fled to Normandy. In 1660 he was the spokesman of the commission delegated to recall Charles II at Breda, and in 1661 he was created Baron Holles of Ifield in Sussex. His last important public duty was the negotiation of the treaty of Breda in 1667.