Background
He was the only son of Francis Holyoake and Judith.
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Thomas Holyoake
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Education
Born at Stoneythorpe, Warwickshire, he attended Coventry grammar school. Entered Queen's College, Oxford, in Michaelmas term 1632 (Bachelor 1636. Master of Arts 1639) (Wood, Fasti Oxfordshire ed Bliss, i 487, 508).
And became chaplain to his college.
Career
He was chosen captain of a foot company. Consisting chiefly of undergraduates at Oxford University at the beginning of the civil war, in which capacity, doing good service to the royal cause, he was created Doctor of Divinity by Charles I"s express desire. After the surrender of Oxford, Holyoake obtains (in 1647) a license from the university to practise medicine.
He practised successfully in Warwickshire until the Restoration, when Thomas, lord Leigh, preferred him to the rectory of Whitnash, near Warwick.
He was installed also a prebendary of the collegiate church of Wolverhampton. In 1674 Robert, lord Brooke, presented him to the donative of Breamore in Hampshire, where he died on 10 June 1675.
He was buried near his father in the church of Saint Mary at Warwick.
