Holman Gregory

Sir Henry Holman Gregory (30 June 1864 – 9 May 1947) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal Party politician.

[8] In 1924, Gregory was elected to the Bar Council, the body regulating the profession of barristers in the United Kingdom.

[14] In 1916, Gregory appeared for the defence in the case of Daniel Julian Bailey, a Dublin born soldier in the Royal Irish Rifles.

[15] Bailey was described as being of humble origin and had previously served as a soldier in the British army for nine years with an exemplary record.

[16] In 1913, the sitting Liberal MP for the Southern Division of Derbyshire, Sir Henry Herbert Raphael, announced that he would not be standing at the next election through ill-health,[17] although he had also fallen out with the party over the issue of land reform.

He was one of the few Liberals to be awarded the Coalition coupon in the Midlands[20] and in a straight fight with Labour he won 66% of the poll and a majority of 7,581 votes.

[22] As a well-known lawyer and judge, and with political connections, Gregory was in frequent demand to sit on or to chair official commissions, boards of inquiry and labour arbitration tribunals.

[24] From 1917 to 1920, Gregory presided over a departmental committee to enquire into the system of workmen's compensation, which formed the basis for policy and legislation in the succeeding years.