Frescheville Holles

Sir Frescheville Holles (8 June 1642 – 28 May 1672) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1666 to 1672.

[3] In 1667 he was also made a captain in the 2nd Foot Guards but lost his command in 1669, becoming Mayor of Grimsby that year instead in the footsteps of his father.

[4] In March 1672, he and Sir Robert Holmes sailed from Portsmouth and attacked the Dutch Smyrna convoy in the English Channel on its return home.

He was given a funeral in Westminster Abbey and was buried in St Edmund's chapel in an unmarked grave.

[1] Holles married Jane, daughter of Richard Lewis, and widow of Valentine Crome, a London merchant.[when?

Sir Frescheville Holles and Sir Robert Holmes