Philip Holland

Sir Philip Welsby Holland (born 14 March 1917) is a retired British Conservative Party politician.

He was educated at Sir John Deane's Grammar School, Northwich. He served with the Royal Air Force from 1936 to 1946 and was in the Middle East from 1938 to 1942. He was the personnel manager of an electronics company and served as a councillor on Kensington Borough Council from 1955 to 1959.

Holland was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1955 general election in the Birmingham Yardley constituency. At the next general election, in 1959, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for the marginal constituency of Acton in West London, narrowly defeating the sitting Labour MP Joseph Sparks. He lost the seat to Bernard Floud at the 1964 election.

He stood at the 1966 general election in the safe Conservative seat of Carlton in Nottinghamshire, where he was re-elected until the constituency's abolition for the 1983 general election. He was then returned for the new Gedling constituency, and retired at the 1987 election after 28 years in Parliament.

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The Times Guide to the House of Commons, Times Newspapers Ltd, 1955, 1966 & 1983
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joseph Sparks	Member of Parliament for Acton 1959–1964	Succeeded by Bernard Floud
Preceded by Kenneth William Murray Pickthorn	Member of Parliament for Carlton 1966–1983	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Gedling 1983–1987	Succeeded by Andrew Mitchell