Sir Horace Edwin Holmes DCM (30 March 1888 – 9 September 1971) was a British Labour Party politician and trade union official.

[1][2] Born in Royston, South Yorkshire, Holmes received an elementary education before becoming a coal miner.

During World War I, he served as a sergeant in the Leeds Rifles, and received the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

[3][4] Sponsored by his union, Holmes was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth at a by-election in 1946 following the death of the sitting MP George Griffiths.

[6][7] From 1947 until 1951, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the successive Ministers of Fuel and Power, Hugh Gaitskell and Philip Noel-Baker.