Arthur Holbrook
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Colonel Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook (born 28 April 1850, Bath) was a Conservative MP for Basingstoke.
He won the seat at a by-election in 1920, lost it in 1923, was re-elected in 1924, and stood down in 1929.
He was a Newspaper proprietor; founder of Southern Daily Mail; Fellow of the Institute of Journalists; President Newspaper Society, 1913–14; Chairman Portsmouth Conservative Association, 1885–98; President Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 1907–12; Commanded Royal Army Service Corps, Salisbury Plain District, 1914–19.[1]
References
- ^ ‘HOLBROOK, Col Sir Arthur (Richard)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 15 May 2020