Richard Burdon Haldane (1856 - 1928)

Born 30 Jul 1856 in Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Died 19 Aug 1928 at age 72 in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

Richard was born in 1856.

He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy (1866-72), where he was captain of the second Cricket XI in his final year.^[1]

He went to Edinburgh University, spending a term at Göttingen University, and graduated MA with 1st Class Honours. He was elected Gray Scholar and Ferguson Scholar in philosophy, in a competition open to the four Scottish universities, 1876.

[Work in progress Biography to comprise expansion of:  ; Barr. Linc. Inn, 1879; Q.C. 1890; Gifford Lecturer, St. Andrews Univ., 1902-4 ; P.C. 1905; Lord Rector, Edin. Univ., 1905; M.P. Haddingtonshire, 1885- 1911 ; Sec. of State for War, 1905-12 ; F.R.S. 1906 ; Mem. of Comtee. for Imperial Defence ; cr. Viscount Haldane of Cloan, 1911 ; Lord Chancellor, June 1912 ; K.T. 1913.]

He was awarded a number of honorary degrees:

• DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) from Oxford University.
• LLD (Doctor of Laws) from the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.

Publications include:

• Essays in Philosophical Criticism (1883, with Andrew Seth)
• The World as Will and Idea (3 vols: 1883-86, translation of Schopenhauer's work with John Kemp)
• Life of Adam Smith (1887)
• Education and Empire (1902)
• The Pathway to Reality (1903)
• The Universities and National Life (1910)

He died in 1928.

Research Notes

His record in the Edinburgh Academy Register reads as follows:
HALDANE, Richard Burdon, 1866-72. Cl. 1-6. b, 30 July 1856; s. of Robert Haldane, W.S., of Cloanden, 17 Charlotte Square ; 2nd XI. Capt.
Edin. and Gottingen Univs. ; D.C.L. Oxon ; LL.D. Cantab, Edin., Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham; F.R.S. ; M.A. Edin. (1st Cl. Hons.) ; Gray Scholar and Ferguson Scholar in Phil, of four Scot. Univs. 1876 ; Gifford Lecturer, St. Andrews Univ., 1902-4; Barr. Linc. Inn, 1879; Q.C. 1890; P.C. 1905; Lord Rector, Edin. Univ., 1905; M.P. Haddingtonshire, 1885-1911 ; Sec. of State for War, 1905-12; Mem. of Comtee. for Imperial Defence cr. Viscount Haldane of Cloan, 1911 ; Lord Chancellor, June 1912 ; K.T. 1913. Author: Essays in Philosophical Criticism (with Prof. Seth) ; Life of Adam Smith ; trans, with Mr. Kemp, Schopenhauer's World as Will and Idea (3 vols.) ; Education and Empire, 1902 ; The Pathway to Reality, 1903 ; The Universities and National Life. Address: 28 Queen Anne's Gate, Lond., S.W., and Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire. See also E.A. Ch. xix.

Sources

1. ↑ The Edinburgh Academy Register: Page 297.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Haldane,_1st_Viscount_Haldane
• Campbell, J. Haldane : The Forgotten Statesman who Shaped Modern Britain. London: Hurst & Company. 2020.

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