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{{Infobox nobility title
| name              = Baron Holmes
| creation_date     = 1760 <small>(first creation)</small><br />1797 <small> (second creation)</small> 
| monarch           = [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] <small> (first creation)</small><br />[[George III]] <small>(second creation)</small> 
| peerage           = [[Peerage of Great Britain]]<br /><small>(first and second creations)</small>
| remainder_to      = [[Line of hereditary succession|Heirs male]] [[heirs of the body|of the body<br />lawfully begotten]] 
| extinction_date   = 1764 <small>(first creation)</small><br />1804 <small>(second creation)</small>
}}

'''Baron Holmes''' was a title that was created twice in the [[Peerage of Ireland]]. The first creation came on 11 September 1760 when the politician [[Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes|Thomas Holmes]] was made '''Baron Holmes''', of Kilmallock in the County of Limerick.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=10029 |date=23 August 1760 |page=1}}</ref> The title became extinct on his death on 21 July 1764. The second creation came on 6 November 1797 when Leonard Holmes was made '''Baron Holmes''', of Kilmallock in the County of Limerick. He was the nephew of the first Baron of the 1760 creation. The title became extinct on his death on 18 January 1804.

==Barons Holmes, first creation (1760)==
*[[Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes]] (1699–1764)

==Barons Holmes, second creation (1797)==
*<span id="Leonard Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes">Leonard Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes ({{circa|1732}} – 18 January 1804)</span>. 
Born Leonard Troughear, he was the son of Thomas Troughear and Elizabeth Holmes, daughter of Henry Holmes and sister of [[Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes]]. He was a clergyman. On succeeding to his uncle Lord Holmes's estates he assumed the surname of Holmes in lieu of his patronymic.

In 1797, the barony held by his uncle was also revived when Holmes was raised to the [[Peerage of Ireland]] as '''Baron Holmes''', of Kilmallock in the County of Limerick.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=14064 |date=11 November 1797 |page=1081 }}</ref> Lord Holmes married Elizabeth Tyrrell. They had one daughter, The Honourable Catherine Holmes, who married [[Edward Rushworth (politician)|Edward Rushworth]] and had several children by him. Lord Holmes died in January 1804. As he had no sons the barony died with him. Lady Holmes died in 1810.

==Genealogy==
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* Henry Holmes of [[Mallow, County Cork]], [[Ireland]]
** Colonel Thomas Holmes of [[Kilmallock]], [[County Limerick]], [[Ireland]]
*** [[Henry Holmes (Yarmouth MP, died 1738)|Henry Holmes]] ({{circa|1660}}–1738) m. Mary Holmes (daughter of [[Robert Holmes (Royal Navy officer)|Admiral Sir Robert Holmes]])
**** [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] [[Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes]] (1699–1764)
**** [[Henry Holmes (British Army officer)|Lieutenant General Henry Holmes]] (1703–62)
**** [[Charles Holmes (Royal Navy officer)|Rear Admiral Charles Holmes]] (1711–1761)
**** Elizabeth Holmes m. Thomas Troughear
***** Leonard (Troughear) Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes ({{circa|1732}}–1804) m. Elizabeth Tyrrell (d.1810)
****** The Hon. Catherine Holmes m. [[Edward Rushworth (politician)|Edward Rushworth]]
******* ''Descendants''
** [[Robert Holmes (Royal Navy officer)|Admiral Sir Robert Holmes]] ({{circa|1622}}–1692), English Admiral
*** Mary Holmes (wife of [[Henry Holmes (Yarmouth MP, died 1738)|Henry Holmes]])
** [[John Holmes (Royal Navy officer)|Admiral Sir John Holmes]] (1640?–1683), English Admiral leader
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==See also==
* [[Holmes's Bonfire]], Raid by the English Fleet on the Vlie estuary, Netherlands, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1666
* [[Worsley baronets|Worsley (later Worsley-Holmes) baronets]], baronetcy created in the Baronetage of England
* [[Baron Heytesbury|Baron Heytesbury (à Court (later Holmes-à Court) family)]], peerage created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

==References==
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[[Category:Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Ireland]]
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