- Philip Holland
Sir Philip Welsby Holland (born
14 March 1917 ) is a retired British Conservative Party politician.He was educated at Sir John Deane's Grammar School,
Northwich . He served with theRoyal Air Force from 1936 to 1946 and was in theMiddle East from 1938 to 1942. He was the personnel manager of an electronics company and served as a councillor on Kensington Borough Council from 1955 to 1959.Holland was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1955 general election in the Birmingham Yardley constituency. At the next general election, in 1959, he was elected to the House of Commons as
Member of Parliament (MP) for the marginal constituency of Acton inWest London , narrowly defeating the sitting Labour MPJoseph Sparks . He lost the seat toBernard Floud at the 1964 election.He stood at the 1966 general election in the safe Conservative seat of Carlton in
Nottinghamshire , where he was re-elected until the constituency's abolition for the 1983 general election. He was then returned for the new Gedling constituency, and retired at the 1987 election after 28 years in Parliament.References
*"The Times Guide to the House of Commons", Times Newspapers Ltd, 1955, 1966 & 1983
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