William Holms (politician)

{{Short description|Scottish businessman and politician}}

{{for|the Scottish rugby union player and engineer|William Holms (engineer)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| birth_date = {{birth date|1827|2|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paisley, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1903|10|8|1827|2|5|df=y}}

| office = Member of the House of Commons

| termstart = 1874

| termend = 1884

| constituency = Paisley

| monarch = Victoria

| predecessor = Humphrey Crum-Ewing

| successor = Stewart Clark

}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

William Holms (5 February 1827 – 8 October 1903){{Cite web|title=Rushdatabase|url=https://membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org/members/2301|access-date=2021-02-19|website=membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org}}{{Cite book|last=Malchow|first=Howard L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Adb34TuGFcC&q=William+Holms+1903&pg=PA387|title=Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman|date=1992|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1807-3|pages=387|language=en}} was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1884.

Holms was the son of James Holms of Sancel Bank, Paisley and his wife Janet Love, daughter of James Love of Paisley. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University and was partner in a textile company with factories in Glasgow and London. He was a J.P. for Lanarkshire and Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Lanarkshire Artillery.[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1881londuoft#page/116/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881]

At the 1874 general election Holms was elected Member of Parliament for Paisley. He held the seat until 1884 when he resigned.{{rayment-hc|r|1|date=March 2012}}

Holms married Mary Lindsay McArthur Buchanan daughter of John Buchanan of Glasgow in 1857.[http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen014.htm Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow men – John Buchanan] His brother John Holms was MP for Hackney.