John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare

John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (May 1564 – 4 October 1637) was an English nobleman.

[1] He was born at Haughton Hall, Nottinghamshire and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge from 1579, aged 12, after which he studied law at Gray's Inn from 1583.

Through his marriage to Anne, he inherited Thurland Hall in Nottingham which was later known as Clare Place.

The family seat was at Haughton Hall in the parish of Bothamsall, which was demolished in the late eighteenth century.

Northumberland had sent him other volumes by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, Philibert de l'Orme, Sebastiano Serlio, Wendel Dietterlin, and Leon Battista Alberti, and he knew that Holles had his own copy of the works of Palladio.