Robert Durning Holt

Robert Durning Holt (11 October 1832 in Liverpool – 10 December 1908) was an English shipowner, cotton-broker and local politician. He was Mayor of Liverpool and first Lord Mayor of Liverpool (1892-1893).
He was the youngest of five sons of George Holt, Sr. and Emma Durning and worked first in his father's cotton-broking business. His brothers were George Holt (merchant), Philip Holt, and Alfred Holt, founder of Blue Funnel lines. Robert Durning Holt married Lawrencina Potter, daughter of railway magnate Richard Potter and Lawrencina Heyworth. His son was the national politician Sir Richard Durning Holt, 1st Baronet.