Background
Holden was the eldest son of Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Bt, Member of Parliament, of Oakworth House in Oakworth, near Keighley, and his wife Marion Love, daughter of Angus Love of Paisley, Scotland.
Holden was the eldest son of Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Bt, Member of Parliament, of Oakworth House in Oakworth, near Keighley, and his wife Marion Love, daughter of Angus Love of Paisley, Scotland.
He was educated at Edinburgh and at Wesley College, Sheffield.
He was raised to the peerage as Baron Holden in 1908. Holden was mayor of Bradford in 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1886. In 1884 he stood unsuccessfully for parliament at a by-election at Knaresborough.
At the 1885 general election, he was elected as the first Member of Parliament for the Eastern Division of Bradford as a Liberal, but he lost the seat in the 1886 general election.
He was mayor of Bradford again in 1886. At the 1892 general election he was returned as a Gladstonian Liberal for the Buckrose Division of the East Riding which he continued to represent until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1900 general election.
On the death of his father in 1897 he succeeded to the baronetcy, becoming Sir Angus Holden, 2nd Baronet. On 4 July 1908 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Holden, of Alston in the county of Cumberland.
23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 25th United Kingdom Parliament. 26th United Kingdom Parliament.