Arthur Holland (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Edward Aveling Holland, (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. Holland was, after graduating from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, commissioned into the Royal Artillery in May 1880.

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. In 1912 he was appointed commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 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. In July 1915 he became Commander Royal Artillery for VII Corps and in September 1915 he was appointed General Officer Commanding 1st Division. 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.

Member of Parliament
Holland was Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1924 until his death in 1927. 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. He died in 1927 and was interred in Greenwich Cemetery.