Richard Durning Holt

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Richard Durning Holt (13 November 1868 – 22 March 1941) was a British Liberal politician.

Holt was educated at Winchester public school and New College, Oxford. He was elected as a Liberal for Hexham but his classical liberal ideas were increasingly out of fashion in the Liberal Party; he opposed David Lloyd George's social welfare legislation as government interefence.^[1] However he did accept the minimum wage in 1900 and a public works programme in 1929 after at first opposing it.^[2] He became part of the 'Holt Cave' of Liberal MPs who opposed Lloyd George's 1914 budget.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Sir Richard Durning Holt, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2. ^ Sir Richard Durning Holt, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

[edit] References

• David Dutton, 'One Liberal's War. Richard Durning Holt and Liberal politics 1914-18', Journal of Liberal Democrat History, Issue 36, Autumn 2002, pp. 3-8.

[edit] Further reading

• Odyssey of an Edwardian Liberal: The Political Diary of Richard Durning Holt (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1990).
• Ian Packer, 'The Liberal Cave and the 1914 Budget', The English Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 442 (Jun., 1996), pp. 620-635.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Wenworth Beaumont	Member of Parliament for Hexham 1907–1918	Succeeded by Douglas Clifton Brown