UK Elections Info

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Born: 3 August 1825

Died: 29 January 1914

1st Baron Knutsford - 23 February 1888

1st Viscount Knutsford - 3 August 1895

2nd Baronet - 27 October 1873

Member of Privy Council - 1885

son of Sir Henry Holland, Bt

husband of Elizabeth Margaret Hibbert

husband of Margaret Jean Trevelyan

Harrow School

Durham University

Trinity College, Cambridge (- 1847)

Inner Temple

Lawyer

Financial Secretary to the Treasury	24 June 1885	1885
Vice President of the Committee of the Council on Education	17 September 1885	28 January 1886
Vice President of the Committee of the Council on Education	3 August 1886	25 January 1887
Secretary of State for the Colonies	14 January 1887	11 August 1892

23 September 1874	Midhurst	Conservative Party	Unopposed
1 April 1880	Midhurst	Conservative Party	501	63.90
26 November 1885	Hampstead	Conservative Party	2,785	58.98
5 July 1886	Hampstead	Conservative Party	2,707	74.12
3 August 1886 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir Henry Holland, Bt on appointment as the Vice-President of the Committee of Council of Education.
11 August 1886	Hampstead	Conservative Party	Unopposed
23 February 1888 Elevation of Rt Hon Sir Henry Holland, Bt to the Peerage - 1st Viscount Knutsford.