Arthur Holbrook
Colonel Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook, KBE, VD, JP, DL (28 April 1850 – 24 December 1946) was a British newspaper proprietor and 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 of the Newspaper Society, 1913–14; Chairman of Portsmouth Conservative Association, 1885–98; President of Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 1907–12; Commanded Royal Army Service Corps, Salisbury Plain District, 1914–19.

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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
1850 births
People from Bath, Somerset
British newspaper founders
British newspaper people
Royal Army Service Corps officers
British Army personnel of World War I
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
English justices of the peace
Deputy Lieutenants
1946 deaths