Arthur Holbrook


Colonel Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook was a Conservative MP for Basingstoke.
He won the seat at a by-election in 1920, lost it in 1923, was re-elected in 1924, and stood down in 1929.
He was a Newspaper proprietor; founder of Southern Daily Mail; Fellow of the Institute of Journalists; President Newspaper Society, 1913–14; Chairman Portsmouth Conservative Association, 1885–98; President Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 1907–12; Commanded Royal Army Service Corps, Salisbury Plain District, 1914–19.