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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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| name = Richard B. Holden
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| office1 = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Quebec]] for [[Westmount (provincial electoral district)|Westmount-Saint-Georges]]
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|7|7}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|9|18|1931|7|7}}
| death_place = [[Atwater Market|Marché Atwater]] apartment, [[Montreal]]
| death_cause = Suicide
| nationality = Canadian
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| party = [[independent (politician)|Independent]]
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| children = [[Arthur Holden|Arthur]], Christopher, Caroline
| residence = [[Westmount]], Quebec
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| occupation = Politician and lawyer
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'''Richard B. Holden''' (7 July 1931 – September 18, 2005) was a lawyer and member of the [[Quebec Legislature|provincial legislature]] of [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref>{{QuebecMNAbio|holden-richard-b-3647}}</ref> An obituary describes him as cynical and self-deprecating, a ''[[boulevardier]]'' and a [[wikt:maverick|maverick]].<ref>{{cite web|author=© The Gazette (Montreal) 2005 |url=http://www.wednesday-night.com/RichardHolden.asp |title=Richard Holden on DTNicholson's |publisher=Wednesday-night.com |date= |access-date=2010-06-18}}</ref>
==Personal life==
He had first entered politics running unsuccessfully for the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservatives]] in the [[Canadian federal election, 1979|1979 federal election]] in the riding of [[Dollard (electoral district)|Dollard]] placing a distant second place. ▼
Richard Holden is the son of John Hastie Holden and Marguerite Holden Hutcheson.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Richard B. Holden - National Assembly of Québec|url=http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/holden-richard-b-3647/biographie.html|access-date=2021-11-17|website=www.assnat.qc.ca|language=en}}</ref> His father was an engineer; his grandfather found fortune with a company that procured boots for soldiers during [[World War I]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hustak|first=Alan|date=25 Sep 2005|title=Political maverick lived on the edge|page=D7|work=The (Montreal) Gazette}}</ref> Holden studied law at [[McGill University]] and the [[Université de Montréal]] and [[political science]] at the [[Universite de Grenoble]].
He was elected the National Assembly in the [[Quebec general election, 1989|1989 election]] as a candidate of the [[Canadian federalism|federalist]], [[Anglo-Quebecker|English]]-rights [[Equality Party (Quebec)|Equality Party]], but was expelled from the Equality Party for balking at [[party discipline]].▼
A litigator, he practiced primarily in the field of personal injury and professional malpractice cases<ref>{{Cite book|last=Steinberg|first=Henry|title=Backstage at the Palace|publisher=Stoddart|year=1993|pages=9}}</ref> at various law firms from his call to the bar in 1956 until elected to political office in 1989.<ref name=":0" />
After sitting as an Independent, he shocked his predominantly English-speaking [[Westmount (provincial electoral district) | Westmount]] constituents when he [[crossing the floor|crossed the floor]] to join the [[Quebec separatism|separatist]] [[Parti Québécois]] (PQ) in [[1992]]. Holden's brother, Rodney, stopped speaking to him and threatened to change his name as a result of the defection. ▼
He divorced Helene Papachristidis in 1981. He was survived by children Christopher, [[Arthur Holden|Arthur]], and Caroline.
Following his defeat as a PQ candidate in neighbouring [[Verdun (provincial electoral district)|Verdun]] riding in the [[Quebec general election, 1994|1994 election]], the PQ government appointed Holden to the province's rental housing board on which he served until [[1999]]. ▼
==Political career==
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]]. [http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/national/archives/2005/09/20050920-081844.html]▼
Holden first entered politics running as an [[independent (politician)|independent]] candidate in the district of [[Westmount (provincial electoral district)|Westmount-Saint-Georges]] in [[1962 Quebec general election|1962]]. He stood opposed to [[Hydro-Québec]]'s [[nationalization]]. He finished second, ahead of the [[Union Nationale (Quebec)|Union Nationale]] candidate.
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==Death==
▲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]].<ref>{{cite
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