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Admitted November 3, 1628.

Son and heir of Frescheville Holies of Great Grimsby, where he was born 9 March, 1606. In 1630 he succeeded to the family estate to which he retired, but having lost his wife and daughter, he returned to the Middle Temple in 1635, and was called to the Bar 24 May, 1639. He was elected for Grimsby to Parliament in 1640, and was suspended the following year for opposing the dominant party. He joined the king and fought in the war till he was taken prisoner at the siege of Colchester. He was allowed to retire to France in 1649, and subsequently to Holland. At the Restoration he was made Master of Requests, and was again returned for Grimsby, which he represented to his death 10 Feb. 1674-5. During his early residence in Lincolnshire he collected materials for a history of that county, seven volumes of which are amongst the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum.

Admitted 11 December, 1801.

Second son of the Rev. Ludlow Holt, LL.D., of North Repps, Norfolk. He was educated at Westminster and Oxford, and called to the Bar 27 Jan. 1809. In 1829 he was admitted ad eundem to the Inner Temple, where he was elected Reader in 1839, and Treasurer in 1840. In 1831 he became a King's Counsel. He was an Exchequer Loan Bill Commissioner, and Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 1826 to his death 29 Sept. 1844.

He was the author of a treatise on the Law and Usage of Parliament in Cases of Privilege and Contempt (1810). Also of works on the Law of Libel (1812); of Shipping (1820); and of Bankruptcy (1827); and in 1804 he produced a Comedy entitled The Land we Live in, which was once represented at Drury Lane.

HONIWOOD. see HONYWOOD.

Admitted 30 April, 1839.

Eldest son of Colonel Sir Ord John Honyman. He was called to the Bar 8 June, 1849, became a Queen's Counsel in 1866, and served the office of Reader at the Inn in 1872. The following year he was made Serjeant and elevated to the Bench in the Court of Common Pleas, but from failing health was compelled to relinquish its duties in 1875, and died the same year. He was the fourth baronet of the family, the first having been a Lord of Session in Scotland.

Admitted 21 June, 1620.

Son and heir of Robert Honywood of Charing, Kent. He served in the wars of the Palatinate, and was knighted in 1625. In 1659 he was in the Council of State, and was sent on an Embassy to Sweden. In 1673 he translated from the Italian Nani's History of the Affairs of Europe. He died 16 April, 1686.