Henry Holmes

Who is Henry Holmes?

Henry Holmes, often known as Harry Holmes, was a politician in Northern Ireland.

Holmes worked as the managing director of a draper's shop. In 1943, he became the Honorary Treasurer of Harry Midgley's Commonwealth Labour Party, but he left in 1944 to join the rival Northern Ireland Labour Party, for which he stood unsuccessfully in Antrim at the United Kingdom general election, 1945.

Holmes was Chairman of the NILP in 1948, but he resigned the following year to join the Ulster Unionist Party. He defeated the veteran Independent Unionist MP Tommy Henderson in Belfast Shankill in 1953 and was re-elected in 1958. He resigned in 1959, following business difficulties.