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He was born in the village of Hurlet near Glasgow , and from the age of ten worked in a cotton mill. He became largely self-educated, although he did briefly attend a Grammar School . After an unsuccessful Apprenticeship , he became a teacher at local schools, and in 1829 obtained a post at the Castle Academy in Reading, Berkshire . It was here that he developed the Lucifer Match , but did not patent the invention. (It was apparently taken up by the father of one of his pupils). The following year he returned to Scotland, and after a brief period of teaching became a bookkeeper at a Worsted factory. Transferring to the technical side, he developed a square motion wool-comber and a device for making genappe yarns, which he did patent along with S. C, Lister (later Lord Masham). In 1848 , trading as Lister & Holden, they set up a factory near Paris which became the largest wool-combing establishment in the world. Lister retired from the business, and the company became Isaac Holden and sons. Holden also served as a Liberal Member Of Parliament for Knaresborough from 1865 to 1868 , for the Northern West Riding Of Yorkshire from 1882 to 1885 and for Keighley from 1885 to 1895 . Holden owned Oakworth House near Keighley in Yorkshire . In 1893 , at the age of 86, he was created a Baronet, of Oakworth House in the County of York. Holden died in August 1897, aged 90, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Angus Holden . In 1908 the latter was raised to the peerage as Baron Holden . The former grounds of Oakworth House were given as a public park to the people of Oakworth by the family of Sir Isaac Holden in 1927. This is called Holden Park . REFERENCE EXTERNAL LINK
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