Richard Durning Holt

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. [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47428/58247 Sir Richard Durning Holt, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"] ] However he did accept the minimum wage in 1900 and a public works programme in 1929 after at first opposing it. [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47428/58247 Sir Richard Durning Holt, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"] ] He became part of the 'Holt Cave' of Liberal MPs who opposed Lloyd George's 1914 budget.

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References

* [http://www.liberalhistory.org.uk/uploads/36-Autumn%25202002.pdf 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.]

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.