| Authorised form of name | Haldane; Richard Burdon (1856 - 1928); Viscount Haldane of Cloan; politician, educationist, and lord chancellor |
| Dates | 1856 - 1928 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 30 July 1856 |
| Place of death | Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Date of death | 19/08/1928 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Family burial place at Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | Politician, educationist, and lord chancellor |
| Research field | Philosophy |
| Activity | Education: Edinburgh preparatory school; Edinburgh Academy; University of Göttingen; University of Edinburgh (MA)
Career:
Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire (1885-1911); Secretary of State for War between (1905-1912); Lord Chancellor (1912-1915; 1924); Leader of the House of Lords (1924).
Honours:
Viscount 1911; KT 1913; OM 1915
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| Membership category | Statute 12 |
| Date of election | 01/11/1906 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| Proposer | Henry E Armstrong |
| Shelford Bidwell |
| Hugh Frank Newall |
| John Perry |
| William Augustus Tilden |
| Wyndham Rowland Dunstan |
| John Norman Collie |
| William Huggins |
| John Edward Marr |
| William Davidson Niven |
| Lauder Brunton |
| Francis Gotch |
| Ernest Henry Starling |
| Sidney Frederic Harmer |
| Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Alfred Bray Kempe |
| Joseph Larmor |
| Francis Darwin |
| Archibald Geikie |
| [John William Strutt] Rayleigh |
| Relationships | Parents: Robert Haldane (1805–1877), writer to the signet and a Baptist, and Mary Elizabeth (1825–1925), second daughter of Richard Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond and Otterburn Dene, Northumberland, and sister of Sir John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905) (FRS 1867), physiologist.
Brother: John Scott Haldane (FRS 1897)
Nephew: John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (FRS 1932) |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 42630
RCN 42636 |
| OtherInfo | Helped found the London School of Economics. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
References:
Vanity Fair 03 February 1896 |
| Code | NA5122 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1906/17 | Haldane Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane of Cloan: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/001838 | Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane of Cloan | 1922 |
| ACS/1/1/180 | Letter from [Richard Burdon] Haldane, War Office, Whitehall, S.W., to Mr [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton | 14 July 1908 |
| ACS/1/1/181 | Letter from [Richard Burdon] Haldane, War Office, Whitehall, S.W., to Mr [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton | 17 July 1908 |