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unusual facts about John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare



Clare Market

It was named after the food market which had been established in Clement's Inn Fields, by John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare.

Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles

Denzil was the final Baron Holles, at which time the estates devolved on a cousin, John Holles (1662–1711), 4th Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.

Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet

He inherited the Manor of Tyburn, or Marylebone, from his mother's family and sold it in 1710 to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

William Holles

He left the bulk of the estate to his grandson William (grandfather of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare).


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