Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham

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Richard Gordon Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham PC (born 1936) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

Educated at University of Oxford (BA Jurisprudence St John's College) and Harvard Business School, Holme joined the Liberal Party in 1959, and was elected as the party's President in 1980 and 1981. He unsuccesfully as the Liberal candidate in Cheltenham at the 1983 general election and at the 1987 general election. After the Liberal Party's merger with SDP in 1998, he joined the newly-formed Liberal Democrats

Holme was a close advisor to David Steel when he was leader of the Liberal Party, and to his successor, the first Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown. He was made a life peer in May 1990, as Baron Holme of Cheltenham, of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucestershire. In 2000, he was appointed as a Privy Counsellor.

He is a fellow of the British-American Project.