Richard Holland (Parliamentarian)

Richard Holland (died 1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1656.

He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

He was a colonel in the service of the commonwealth and a firm adherent of Presbyterian party.

He was re-elected MP Lancashire in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament.

[1] Holland left two daughters - Ann wife of Edward Kenyon of Prestwich and Frances who married Francis Beresford of Bentley.