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 Basingstoke ( ) is the largest town in the county of Hampshire. It is situated in south-central England and lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon, at the far western edge of The North Downs. It is located north-east of Southa ...

. 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 the ''Southern Daily Mail''; Fellow of the Institute of Journalists; President of the Newspaper Society, 1913–14; Chairman of Portsmouth Conservative Association, 1885–98; and President of Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 1907–12. He commanded the

Royal Army Service Corps The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...

, Salisbury Plain District, 1914–19.‘HOLBROOK, Col Sir Arthur (Richard)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 201
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* Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 1850 births People from Bath, Somerset 19th-century 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 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub