Edward Holman

{{short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = Edward Holman

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|constituency_MP = Forrest

|parliament = Western Australian

|term_start = 20 May 1939

|term_end = 15 March 1947

|predecessor = May Holman

|successor = Alfred Reynolds

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|8|9|df=y}}

|birth_place = Cue, Western Australia, Australia

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1951|7|26|1904|8|9}}

|death_place = Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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|party = Labor

|spouse = {{marriage|Mildred Payne|1928}}

|relations = John Holman (father)
May Holman (sister)

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Edward Joseph Frederick Holman (9 August 1904 – 26 July 1951) was an Australian politician. He was the son of John Holman and Katherine Mary (née Rowe) and the brother of May Holman, the first female Labor MP in Australia. He succeeded his sister as the Labor member for Forrest in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, serving from 1939 to 1947.{{cite web|title=Former Members |publisher=Parliament of Western Australia |year=2005 |url=http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/web/newwebparl.nsf/iframewebpages/Members+-+Former |accessdate=3 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927062045/http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/web/newwebparl.nsf/iframewebpages/Members+-+Former |archivedate=27 September 2011 }}

Holman stood unsuccessfully for the Senate at the 1934 federal election. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the seat of North Perth at the 1936 and 1939 state elections.{{cite news|url=https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/AE3F2D7C6E65808C482577E50028A660?OpenDocument|title=Edward Joseph Frederick Holman|work=Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia|publisher=Parliament of Western Australia|accessdate=9 June 2022}}

He died at Royal Perth Hospital on 26 July 1951, aged 47, after collapsing at his home in Nedlands the night before.{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/265567707|title=Former MLA Dies at 47|newspaper=The Daily News|location=Perth|date=26 July 1951}}