Background
He was the second son of William Holland, a cotton spinner of Higher Broughton, near Manchester.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
He was the second son of William Holland, a cotton spinner of Higher Broughton, near Manchester.
He became prominent in the industry, becoming chairman or president of the Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers Association, the Textile Institute, the Machinery Users" Association and the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. He became involved in liberal politics, and for ten years was an alderman on Manchester City Council. In the 1895 general election the situation was reversed, when he lost the seat by six votes to the Conservative candidate, Frederick Platt-Higgins.
He was knighted in 1902 and made a Baronet, of Queen"s Gate in the Royal Borough of Kensington in 1907.
From 1908 - 1910 was acting Chairman of Ways and Means. He was also a commissioner for the international exhibitions held in Paris in 1900, Milan in 1906 and Brussels in 1910.
He retained the Rotherham seat at successive general elections, up to and including that held in January 1910. However, he chose to step down from parliament in February 1910 to allow J A Pease, who had lost his seat at Saffron Walden, to be return to parliament at a by-election.
In July 1910 Holland was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Rotherham of Broughton, in the County of Lancaster.
He also received the freedom of the Borough of Rotherham. In 1917 Lord Rotherham became insolvent, and was forced to make a settlement with his creditors. William Holland married Mary Lund in 1874, and they had one son.
Stuart Lund Holland, born in 1876.
Lord Rotherham died at his residence in Rottingdean, Sussex in December 1927, aged 78.
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In the 1892 general election he stood as member of parliament for Salford North, winning the seat from the Conservatives by a narrow majority. He was a member of a number of parliamentary and other governmental committees including the Indian Currency Committee, the Advisory Committee on Commercial Intelligence and the Committee on Joint Stock Companies.