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 |