Allan Holmes (25 January 1845 – 9 April 1909) was an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer who played for Otago.
With his family having moved to Otago in New Zealand in 1864,[5] he emigrated to Dunedin and was admitted to the Supreme Court soon after he arrived.
[7] In the mid-1870s, he joined the law firm of William Downie Stewart shortly after John Denniston had joined, and the firm was then known as Stewart, Holmes and Denniston, and acquired an extensive practice in Otago.
[11] They had a son, Henry Herbert Holmes, who was born on 1 July 1874 in Dunedin, and died on 24 December 1903 in Masterton, aged 29.
[12][13] A daughter, Lillie Catherine Mary Holmes, was born on 17 September 1877 in Dunedin.