Sydney Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford

Sydney George Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford (19 March 1855 – 27 July 1931) was a British barrister and peer.

"How Much?"
Holland as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1904

Background and education

Knutsford was the eldest twin son of the Conservative politician Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Hibbert. His grandfather was the physician and travel writer Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet. His mother died when he was three years old. He was educated at Wellington College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1879.[1]

Career

In 1898 Knutsford was elected as Chairman of the East and West India Dock Company. He was a Director of many companies including an English, Scottish and Australian Bank, and the Underground Electric Railways Company. He was also a Director of City and South London Railway, London and Scottish Life Assurance Company and was an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was made a Chairman of Poplar Hospital in 1891 before becoming President in 1920 and he was Chairman of the London Hospital House Committee from 1896 to 1931. He succeeded his father as Viscount Knutsford in 1914.

Family

Lord Knutsford married Lady Mary Ashburnham, daughter of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, in 1883. They had two daughters. He died in July 1931, aged 76. As he had no sons he was succeeded in his titles by his younger twin brother, Arthur.

His daughters were:

gollark: Nvidia deliberately ruins the FOSS drivers because the proprietary ones include lockdowns that stop you using gaming cards at a tenth of the price for servery use.
gollark: Moore's law is basically dead.
gollark: I care about Linux drivers, which Nvidia is quite evil with.
gollark: I played on Intel integrated graphics for years.
gollark: Oh, also maybe power draw.

References
  1. "Holland, Sydney (HLNT872SG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Thurstan Holland		 Viscount Knutsford
1914–1931		 Succeeded by
Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert

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