Sir Frescheville Holles was an English Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons

House of Commons of England

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  from 1666 to 1672. He was killed in action fighting in the Anglo-Dutch war.

Holles was the son of Gervase Holles

Gervase Holles

Gervase Holles was an English lawyer, antiquarian and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War....

 and his second wife Elizabeth Molesworth. His father was MP for Grimsby. Holles was a major in the Westminster militia and commanded a privateer

Privateer

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  called the Panther. He was recommended him for the navy by George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

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. He lost an arm at the Four Days Fight in 1666 while commanding HMS Antelope

HMS Antelope (1653)

The Preston was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Woodbridge, and launched in 1653....

. He was knighted subsequently.

In 1667, Holles was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Grimsby in the Cavalier Parliament

Cavalier Parliament

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. 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. This foray had official sanction and led to the Third Dutch War. Holles was in command of HMS Cambridge

HMS Cambridge (1666)

HMS Cambridge was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1666 at Deptford Dockyard.Cambridge was wrecked in 1694....

 at the Battle of Solebay

Battle of Solebay

The naval Battle of Solebay took place on 28 May Old Style, 7 June New Style 1672 and was the first naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War.-The battle:...

on 28 May 1672 when he was killed at the age of 39. He was given a funeral in Westminster Abbey and was buried in St Edmund's chapel in an unmarked grave.

Holles married Jane Crome (nee Lewis).