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HOLLAND. 241 and inst. 13 Dec. 1G25 ; Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1626, and Groom of the Stole, 1636-42 ; Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1628 ; Groom of the Stole, 1636 to 1642 ; Gen. of the Horse against the Scots, 1639, when " either his loyalty or his valour may be reasonably called in question."^) In Sep. 1640 he was one of 16 " popular " no0lemen( ,J ) named by the King to treat with the Scots. P.O. [S.] 1641. From this period his vacillations were so rapid between the party of King and Pari, that by the latter he was made Lord Lieut, of Midi, and Berks 1642-43 and Member of the assembly of Divines, 1643, while in 1618 he took part in the rising for the King, was defeated at Nonsuch, taken prisoner, and finally executed (a few weeks after the King), as a traitor (=) to Pari. He m. ( d ) in or before 1616, Isabel, da. and h. (1614), of Sir Walter Coi'E, of Kensington, Master of the Court of Wards, by Dorothy, his wife. lie d. 9 March, 1648/9, aged 58 (being beheaded, as aforesaid, on Tower Hill). His widow was Inc. " from Kensington House " ( c ) 1 Sep. 1655, at Kensington ( r ). II. 1G49. ;?. Robert (Rich), Earl Holland and Baron Ken- sington, b. and h., I. about 1620 ; styhd Loud Kensington, 1624-49 ; admitted to the Inner Temple, 1634 ; sue. to the peerage 9 March 1648/9. I In 21 Aug. 1673, by the cleath of his cousin, he became, as hen - male of the body of the grantee., [5th] EARL OF WARWICK. He m. firstly, 8 April Kill, at Kensington, Elizabeth, sister of Henry, 1st Visoount Irvine [S], da. of Sir Arthur Ingram, of Temple Newsom, co. York, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Henry Slingsby, Bart. She was bur. (as the Countess of Holland), 17 Sep. 1661, at Kensington. He in. secondly, his cousin, Ann, 2d da. of Edward (Montagu), 2d Ham, ok Manchester, by his second wife Ann, da. of Robert (Rich), 2d Earl of Warwick. He was bur. 16 April 1675, at Kensington. Will pr. 1675. His widow was bur. 9 July 1689, at Kensington. [Henry Rich, s. and h. ap. by first wife, b. about 1642, styled Lokd Kensington, 1619-59 ; m. 14 Feb. 1658, at Kensingtou, Christian, widow of John Gayke, da. and h. of Sir Andrew Riccaud, of St. Olaves, Hart Street, London. He d. s.p. and v.p., and was 6io " from his house in Kensington," 22 April 1659, at Kensington. Admon, 16 June, 1659. His widow, who was bap. 19 March, 163S/9, at St. Olaves aforesaid, m. thirdly John (Berkeley), 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, who A 28 Aug. 1678, aged 71. She was jar. (with him) 1 Sep. 169S, at Twickenham, Midx.] 1776, had, however, previously sold Holland House (retaining the manor of Kensington), to the Hon. Henry Fox, who had rented it since 1749. He (as also his wife) was raised to the Peerage, under the title of " Holland," which peerage became extinct on the death of the grantee's great grandson, (the 4th Baron) in 1859, under whose will the property passed to his widow, who sold the reversion thereof to her husband's cousin, the Earl of Ilchester, to take effect on her own death, which occurred 23 Sep. 1889. (") Jesse's " Memoirs, &c., during the reign of the Stuarts," where Lord Holland's " despicable apostacy " to that royal race (from which he had received such great and unmerited rewards), is well described, " The personal beauty and untimely fate of Holland " have " thrown an interest over his history which neither his capacity nor his conduct would otherwise have justified." ( b ) See vol. iii., p. 286, note " b " sub. " Essex," for a list of these. (cj The gallant Lord Capell of Hadham, and the Duke of Hamilton [S.] suffered with him. See "The Loyalist's Bloody Roll" in vol. i., p. 194, note "c," sub. " Aubigny." ( d ) This match with one of the richest heiresses in England was procured for him by the Royal Prerogative. He is said to have received from King James nearly £ 150, 000 within a few years. (° ) This entry looks as if " Holland House " had not as yet been known by that name; possibly, however, the house at which the Countess died was the old manor house at Earls Court. (' ) Her father had been bur. there 1 Aug. 1614, and her mother, Dame Dorothy Fowler (then wife of Sir Thomas Fowler, of Islington, Bart.), 30 Aug. 1638. B