Robert Holmes

He was baptized in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 16/11/1701. Was a Captain of an East Indiaman. He married a daughter of Sir William Oglander, of Nunwoll, he left her twenty five thousand pounds; he was supposed to be poisoned. He died in London, May 1741. Two messengers were sent together; one came to the Isle of Wight, to acquaint his mother of his illness; the other stopped at Southhampton to meet her with the account of his death. His widow married his first mate who was afterwards Captain Haldane, he spent much of her fortune at an election at Bridport. After this man's death she went to Law with the present representative of the Holmes' family for Burgage Tenure in Newtown, which had been entrusted to her first husband Robert Holmes by his father to make a vote for his elder brother Thomas and Sir James Worsley of Pylewell on a contested election; it is called Little Starless or governors, being that which gave a vote to Sir Robert Holmes.