Colonel Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook, KBE, VD, JP, DL (28 April 1850 – 24 December 1946) was a British newspaper proprietor and 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 the Southern Daily Mail; Fellow of the Institute of Journalists; President of the Newspaper Society, 1913–14; Chairman of Portsmouth Conservative Association, 1885–98; and President of Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 1907–12. He commanded the 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
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