, son of the preceding, was born in 1616 at Stony-Thorp near Southam in Warwickshire, and
, son of the preceding, was
born in 1616 at Stony-Thorp near Southam in Warwickshire, and educated in grammar learning under Mr. White
at Coventry; from whence he was sent in Michaelmas term
1632, at the age of sixteen years, to Queen’s college in
Oxford, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts July
5, 1636, and that of master, May 16, 1639, and became
chaplain of the college. In the beginning of the civil
wars, when Oxford became the seat of king Charles, and
was garrisoned for his use, he was put into commission,
for a captain of a foot company, consisting mostly of
scholars. In this post he did great service, and had the
degree of doctor of divinity conferred upon him by the
favour of his majesty, though no such matter occurs in the
public register of the university, which was then sometimes
neglected. After the surrender of the garrison of Oxford
to the parliament, he, by the name of Thomas Holyoke,
without the addition of master of arts, bachelor or doctor
of divinity, obtained a licence from the university to practise physic, and settling in his own country, he practised
with good success till the Restoration in 1660, in which
year Thomas lord Leigh, baron of Stone Leigh in Warwickshire, presented him to the rectory of Whitnash near
Warwick. He was soon after made prebendary of the collegiate church of Wolverhampton tn Staffordshire. In
1674 Robert lord Brook conferred upon him the donative
of Breamour in Hampshire (which he had by the marriage of his lady), worth about two hundred pounds per
annum; but, before he had enjoyed it a year, he died of a
fever, June 10, 1675. His body was interred near that of his
father in the church of St. Mary in Warwick. His Dictionary was published after his death in 1677, in fol. and,
as Wood says, “is made upon the foundation laid by
his father.
” Before k are two epistles, one by the
author’s son, Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple,
dedicating the work to lord Brooke, and another by Dr.
Barlow, bishop of Lincoln, which contains many particulars of the work and its author. He had another son,
the Rev. Henry Holyoake, who was for forty years
master of Rugby school in Warwickshire, and died
in 1731.