Arthur Holland (British Army officer)

Sir Arthur Holland
Sir Arthur Holland
	1917 portrait by Francis Dodd
Birth name	Arthur Edward Aveling Butcher
Born	13 April 1862; Kent, England
Died	7 December 1927 (aged 65)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1880–1920
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands	I Corps; 1st Division; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Battles/wars	First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath; Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George; Distinguished Service Order; Member of the Royal Victorian Order; Mentioned in Despatches

Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Edward Aveling Holland, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MVO (13 April 1862 – 7 December 1927) was a British Army officer and Conservative and Unionist politician.

Military career

Born the son of Major General Butcher, Butcher changed his surname to Holland in 1910.^[2] Holland was, after graduating from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, commissioned into the Royal Artillery in May 1880.^[3]^[4]

He served in the Second Boer War and then became Assistant Military Secretary to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta in 1903 before holding a similar role at the War Office from 1910.^[3] In 1912 he was appointed commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.^[3] He also served in the First World War, becoming Commander Royal Artillery for the 8th Division, in which capacity he took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915.^[2] In July 1915 he became Commander Royal Artillery for VII Corps and in September 1915 he was appointed General Officer Commanding 1st Division.^[2] He continued his war service as Commander Royal Artillery for the Third Army from June 1916 and as General Officer Commanding I Corps from February 1917 before retiring in 1920.^[3]

Member of Parliament

Holland was Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1924 until his death in 1927.^[3] The consequent by-election for his seat was won by the Labour candidate Cecil Malone.

Family

Arthur Holland married Mary Kate Duval; they had one daughter.^[2] He died in 1927 and was interred in Greenwich Cemetery.^[5]

References

^ "Life story: Arthur Edward Aveling Holland | Lives of the First World War". livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Obituary: General Sir Arthur Holland MP Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Times, 8 December 1927
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
^ "No. 24848". The London Gazette. 28 May 1880. p. 3221.
^ "Greenwich Cemetery". London Gardens Online. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Arthur Holland

Military offices
Preceded by Richard Henry Jelf	Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich 1912–1914	Succeeded by William Cleeve
Preceded by Richard Haking	General Officer Commanding 1st Division 1915–1916	Succeeded by Peter Strickland
Preceded by Hubert Gough	General Officer Commanding I Corps 1917–1918	Post disbanded
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Margaret Bondfield	Member of Parliament for Northampton 1924–1927	Succeeded by Cecil Malone