Maurice Holmes (barrister)

Sir Maurice Andrew Holmes (28 July 1911 – 21 December 1997) was a barrister and Chairman of the London Transport Board from 1965 to 1969.

Holmes attended Felsted School, Essex.

[1] During the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Service Corps from 1941 to 1945, achieving the rank of Major.

After the war, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1948 where he practised until 1955.

He then acted as the administrator of the South-eastern Law Circuit until 1974.