Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden

Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden (16 March 1833 – 25 March 1912), was a British Liberal Party politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1900.Holden was the eldest son of Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Bt, M.P., of Oakworth House in Oakworth, near Keighley, and his wife Marion Love, daughter of Angus Love of Paisley, Scotland.He was a partner in the firm of Isaac Holden & Sons, Wool Combers, of Alston Works, Bradford.[4] On the death of his father in 1897 he succeeded to the baronetcy, becoming Sir Angus Holden, 2nd Baronet.On 4 July 1908 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Holden, of Alston in the county of Cumberland.
Angus Holden, painted in 1880 by Albert Sachs.
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