11 September 1760. He was appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight from 6 April 1763. Family Holmes first wife, Anne Player Apsley, died in 1743, and he married as his second wife Catherine Leigh, daughter of John Leigh of Shorwell, Isle.of Wight. He died in 1764 and was buried on 21 July. His only son by his first marriage predeceased him and the peerage became extinct on his death, but was revived in 1797 in favour of his nephew Leonard Holmes. Genealogy Henry Holmes of Mallow, Cork, Ireland Colonel Thomas Holmes of Kilmallock, Limerick, Ireland Henry Holmes (–1738) m. Mary Holmes (daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Holmes) Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes (1699–1764) Lieutenant General Henry Holmes (1703–62) Rear Admiral Charles Holmes (1711–1761) Elizabeth Holmes m. Thomas Troughear Leonard (Troughear) Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes (–1804) m. Elizabeth Tyrrell (d.1810) The Hon. Elizabeth Holmes m. Edward Rushout Descendants Admiral Sir Robert Holmes (–1692), English Admiral Mary Holmes (wife of Henry Holmes) Admiral Sir John Holmes (1640?–1683), English Admiral leader References Holmes, Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes, Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Members of Parliament for the Isle of Wight Holmes, Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Peers of Ireland created by George II British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768