Talk:Chris Holmes, Baron Holmes of Richmond

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Chris Holmes, Baron Holmes of Richmond MBE (born 15 October 1971) is a former British swimmer and now life peer in the House of Lords. Holmes represented Great Britain at four Paralympic Games, from 1988 to 2000 and is the only British Paralympic swimmer to win 6 gold medals at a single Games. Holmes won a total of 15 Paralympic medals: nine golds, five silvers, and one bronze. After retiring from swimming he worked as a journalist and solicitor. He was Director of Paralympic Integration for the London Olympics and it was announced that he would be elevated to the House of Lords in August 2013 as a Conservative party peer.

== Early Life and Education ==

Holmes was born in Peterborough on 15th October 1971. He moved with his family to Kidderminster when he was three and attended Harry Cheshire Comprehensive School, Kidderminster. He went on to attend Kings College, Cambridge graduating first with an undergraduate degree in Social and Political Sciences and then in 1998 with an MA (Cantab). In 2001 he gained a post graduate diploma in law (PGDL) at BPP Law School and in 2002 he completed the Legal Practice Course.

Holmes was already a swimmer with the goal of representing his country when he unexpectedly became blind at the age of 14 due to Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy, a genetic eye disorder. He joined a Birmingham club where he committed to the same training regime as other sighted swimmers aspiring to the Olympics. Chris was a member of Great Britain swimming team from 1985 -2002 and Captain for 5 years. He qualified for the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games where he won two silver medals and a bronze. At the Barcelona 1992 Paralympics, four years later, Holmes gathered a British record medal haul of six golds and a silver. Holmes went on to take another three gold medals and a silver at Atlanta in 1996 and finally one more silver at Sydney in 2000 before retiring from the sport with an impressive medal collection that also included a string of world and European titles. In 2013 he was appointed as Non-exec Director to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Holmes speaks regularly at corporate, public sector, community and charity events across the UK and worldwide.

== Public Life ==

Holmes is involved with several charitable organisations. He is patron of: the Youth Sports Trust the British Paralympic Association and Help for Heroes He is also a supporter of the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

== Parliamentary Career ==

On 13 September 2013 HOLMES was created a life peer taking the title Baron Holmes of Richmond, of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.[8] He made his maiden speech on 28th November in a debate on Broadcasting but has also contributed to debates on the Budget, Employment, Education, the World Wide Web and the Legacy from the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. He was appointed to the digital skills select committee in 2014.

== Styles and Honours ==

Mr Christopher Holmes 1971-1993

Mr Christopher Holmes MBE 1993-2013

The Lord Holmes of Richmond, MBE 2013-

== External Links ==

http://www.chrisholmes.co.uk/

http://www.parliament.uk/

http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/

http://youthsporttrust.org/

http://paralympics.org.uk/

http://helpforheroes.org.uk/

http://dofe.org/

References

1.	^ Debretts 2.	^ "The face of modern celebrity", The Independent, 7 September 2005 3.	^ Working Peerages announced Gov.uk 4.	^ Alex Wolff (25 June 2012). "Britain hopes to overhaul attitudes during the 2012 Paralympic Games". Sports Illustrated. 5.	^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 53153. p. 14. 31 December 1992. 6.	^ "Rod Carr And Chris Holmes Appointed To The Board Of UK Sport", Department for Culture, Media and Sport, British government, 11 September 2005

Shiritaikara (talk) 22:02, 16 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi. This appears to be a proposed re-write, as oppose to an "addition". It is difficult to tell what is different between the currently live article and the proposed addition. However, I notice for example that the proposed re-write includes an excessive number of external links. It includes unsourced awards, which are promotional and un-warranted unless independent sources can be found (see WP:ORGAWARDS). The philanthropy material is cited to primary sources affiliated with the philanthropic events. On a tactical note, it appears to introduce more citation errors than are present in the current article. From what I did review, it does not appear to be an improvement over the current page. CorporateM (Talk) 02:08, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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Sexual touching allegations
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51737517 Lord Holmes has been accused of groping a massage therapist during a treatment. He is currently on trial in the Crown Court.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antony1024 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 4 March 2020 (UTC)


 * The trial has collapsed due to the prosecuting barrister being too ill to continue.Paulturtle (talk) 01:07, 18 March 2020 (UTC)