Richard B. Holden (7 July 1931 – September 18, 2005) was a lawyer and member of the provincial legislature of Quebec, Canada.
[3] His father was an engineer; his grandfather found fortune with a company that procured boots for soldiers during World War I.
A litigator, he practiced primarily in the field of personal injury and professional malpractice cases[5] at various law firms from his call to the bar in 1956 until elected to political office in 1989.
After briefly sitting as an independent, he shocked his predominantly English-speaking constituents when he crossed the floor to join the sovereigntist Parti Québécois (PQ) in 1992.
Suffering from chronic, debilitating back pain, Holden committed suicide at the age of 74 by jumping from the eighth-floor balcony of his Atwater Market apartment in Montreal.