RARE "2nd Viscount Knutsford" Sydney Holland Hand Signed TLS for Sale

RARE "2nd Viscount Knutsford" Sydney Holland Hand Signed TLS For Sale

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RARE "2nd Viscount Knutsford" Sydney Holland Hand Signed TLS:
$499.99

Up for sale a RARE! "2nd Viscount Knutsford" Sydney Holland Hand Signed TLS.

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