William_Holms_(politician)

William Holms (politician)

William Holms (politician)

Scottish businessman and politician

For the Scottish rugby union player and engineer, see William Holms (engineer).

William Holms (5 February 1827 – 8 October 1903)[1][2] was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1884.

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Holms was the son of James Holms of Sancel Bank, Paisley and his wife Janet Love, daughter of James Love of Paisley. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University and was partner in a textile company with factories in Glasgow and London. He was a J.P. for Lanarkshire and Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Lanarkshire Artillery.[3]

At the 1874 general election Holms was elected Member of Parliament for Paisley. He held the seat until 1884 when he resigned.[4]

Holms married Mary Lindsay McArthur Buchanan daughter of John Buchanan of Glasgow in 1857.[5] His brother John Holms was MP for Hackney.

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    "Rushdatabase". membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  2. [2]
    Malchow, Howard L. (1992). Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman. Stanford University Press. p. 387. ISBN 978-0-8047-1807-3.
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    Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
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    Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
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    Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow men – John Buchanan
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