Times Online (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
A service of thanksgiving for the life and work of Lord Holme of Cheltenham was held on Wednesday October 15 in St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey. Canon Robert Wright, rector, officiated, assisted by minor canon and succentor of Westminster, the Rev Graeme Napier who led the prayers.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
By MARC S. ELLENBOGENUPI International ColumnistBLOIS, France, May 12 (UPI) — Lord Holme of Cheltenham was the former chairman of the British Liberal Party — a classic European free-market oriented, centrist party. He was chair of the English College Foundation in Prague, where we became friends. To his enemies, he spent 30 years [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
On 4 November 1997, Richard Holme was one of the five-strong Liberal Democrat team on the Lib Dem/Labour Joint Cabinet Committee, when the Prime Minister Tony Blair concluded the meeting with an announcement that he was seeing Jane Fonda next. We were all duly impressed, which was no doubt the intention.
Boulton (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Cancer claimed a very big Westminster fish this weekend. The death of Lord Holme of Cheltenham deprives the Lib Dems of perhaps their most influential Eminence Grise. For more than two decades Richard Holme was the closest advisor of successive...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Richard Holme enjoyed a remarkably full and varied public career. He was a president of the Liberal Party, a key adviser to David Steel and Paddy Ashdown, a lifelong campaigner for constitutional reform, vice-chairman of the Independent Television Commission, chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission and director of numerous businesses. Added to these were various pro bono activities.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Obituary: Astute businessman and senior Liberal Democrat, he was a key adviser to David Steel and Paddy Ashdown
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Obituary: Astute businessman and senior Liberal Democrat, he was a key adviser to David Steel and Paddy Ashdown
