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Authorised form of nameHaldane; Richard Burdon (1856 - 1928); Viscount Haldane of Cloan; politician, educationist, and lord chancellor
Dates1856 - 1928
NationalityBritish
Place of birth17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of birth30 July 1856
Place of deathCloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland
Date of death19/08/1928
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Family burial place at Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland
OccupationPolitician, educationist, and lord chancellor
Research fieldPhilosophy
ActivityEducation: 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
Membership categoryStatute 12
Date of election01/11/1906
Age at election50
ProposerHenry 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
RelationshipsParents: 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)
PublishedWorksRCN 42630
RCN 42636
OtherInfoHelped found the London School of Economics.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
References:
Vanity Fair 03 February 1896
CodeNA5122
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1906/17Haldane Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane of Cloan: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001838Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane of Cloan1922
ACS/1/1/180Letter from [Richard Burdon] Haldane, War Office, Whitehall, S.W., to Mr [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton14 July 1908
ACS/1/1/181Letter from [Richard Burdon] Haldane, War Office, Whitehall, S.W., to Mr [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton17 July 1908
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