Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, PC, KC FRS, FSA (30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928), was an important British Liberal and Labour politician, lawyer, and philosopher.
Lord Haldane was born in Edinburgh, the son of Robert Haldane and his wife Mary Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson. He was the grandson of the Scottish evangelist James Alexander Haldane. His brother was respiratory physiologist John Scott Haldane, his nephew was ...
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Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, PC, KC FRS, FSA (30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928), was an important British Liberal and Labour politician, lawyer, and philosopher.
Lord Haldane was born in Edinburgh, the son of Robert Haldane and his wife Mary Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson. He was the grandson of the Scottish evangelist James Alexander Haldane. His brother was respiratory physiologist John Scott Haldane, his nephew was JBS Haldane and his sister was the author Elizabeth Haldane.
Haldane received his first education at the Edinburgh Academy and at the Göttingen University and University of Edinburgh where he received first-class honors in Philosophy and as Gray scholar and Ferguson scholar in philosophy of the four Scottish Universities. After studying law in London, he was called to the bar in 1879 and was a very successful lawyer. Haldane remained a lifelong bachelor after his fiancée broke off their engagement.
In 1885 he was elected a Liberal member of...
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