Robert Durning Holt

Robert Durning Holt (11 October 1832 in Liverpool – 1908) was an English shipowner, cotton-broker and local politician.^[1] He was Mayor of Liverpool and first Lord Mayor of Liverpool 1892-1893.

He was the youngest of five sons of George Holt, Sr. and Emma Durning and worked first in his father's cotton-broking business. His brothers were George Holt (merchant), Philip Holt, and Alfred Holt, founder of Blue Funnel lines. Robert Durning Holt married Lawrencina Potter, daughter of railway magnate Richard Potter and Lawrencina Heyworth.^[2][3] His son was the national politician Sir Richard Durning Holt, 1st Baronet.

References

1. Malcolm E. Falkus The Blue Funnel legend: a history of the Ocean Steam Ship Company 1990 Page 19 "Richard... His father, Robert Durning Holt (1832- 1908) was the youngest of George Holt's five sons. Robert entered his father' s cotton-broking business and played a most prominent role in Liverpool's political and charitable affairs, though unlike his son, he was too unsure of his educational attainments to seek a national stage."
2. Liverpool banks & bankers, 1760-1837 Page 209 John Hughes 1906 "It was in the fitness of things that the first Lord Mayor of Liverpool should be Robert Durning Holt, whose name also is the latest distinguished addition to the distinguished roll of Liverpool's honorary freemen"
3. Robert Durning Holt - The Peerage