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Haldane - Search Results - MSN Encarta Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (1892-1964), British geneticist, who led the way to establishing mathematically the rates of genetic changes in... Haldane, John Scott (1860-1936), British physiologist, born in Edinburgh, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Jena. Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), British philosopher and statesman, who was responsible for reorganizing the British... ca.encarta.msn.com /Haldane.html   (66 words)

Richard Burdon Haldane - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) RICHARD BURDON HALDANE (1856-), British statesman and philosopher, was the third son of Robert Haldane of Cloanden, Perthshire, a writer to the signet, and nephew of J. Burdon-Sanderson. He was included in 1905 in Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet as secretary for war, and was the author of the important scheme for the reorganization of the British army, by which the militia and the volunteer forces were replaced by a single territorial force. Mr Haldane's chief literary publications were: Life of Adam Smith (1887); Education and Empire (1902); The Pathway to Reality (1903). www.1911encyclopedia.org /Richard_Burdon_Haldane   (342 words)

First World War.com - Who's Who - Lord Haldane Lord Richard Burdon Haldane (1856-1928) is widely regarded as one of Britain's greatest War Ministers, and served as Lord Chancellor from 1912 until he was hounded from office in 1915 as a result of false press allegations relating to his supposed German sympathies. Haldane was called to the Bar in 1879 and was appointed a QC eleven years later. Haldane was elected as an imperialist Liberal Member of Parliament in 1885, remaining in the lower house until his elevation to the peerage in 1911, after which he spoke for the Liberals in the House of Lords. www.firstworldwar.com /bio/haldane.htm   (435 words)

John Scott Haldane Encyclopedia Article @ WetVacations.com (Wet Vacations)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) He was the son of Robert Haldane and the grandson of the Scottish evangelist James Alexander Haldane. Haldane attended Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh University and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Haldane was an international authority on ether and respiration and the inventor of the gas-mask during World War I. www.wetvacations.com /encyclopedia/John_Scott_Haldane   (554 words)

Robert Haldane - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) ROBERT HALDANE (1764-1842), Scottish divine, elder brother of J. Haldane (q.v.), was born in London on the 28th of February 1764. Haldane was afterwards present at the relief of Gibraltar, but at the peace of 1783 he finally left the navy, and soon afterwards settled on his estate of Airthrey, near Stirling. Among his later writings, besides numerous pamphlets on what was known as "the Apocrypha controversy," are a treatise On the Inspiration of Scripture (1828), which has passed through many editions, and a later Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans (1835), which has been frequently reprinted, and has been translated into French and German. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Haldane   (424 words)

Haldane--Statesman Lawyer Philosopher In the annals of British politics Richard Burdon Haldane, Lord Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), was a secondary figure. Haldane was an unlikely military reformer for he was a scholarly Scottish lawyer with a taste for the study of German philosophy, an interest which, however, innocent, got him into a great deal of political trouble once the war began. Haldane's practice took in a tangle of complicated legal questions raised by the need to adjudicate disputes under the co-existing but sharply differing legal systems of the many distinct societies of the world's largest empire. www.unt.edu /lpbr/subpages/reviews/hallmart.htm   (2839 words)

ScotClans - Clan Haldane Haldane was born in Edinburgh descended from Scottish aristocrats. Haldane made many contributions to human genetics and was one of the three major figures to develop the mathematical theory of population genetics. Haldane was a friend of the author Aldous Huxley, and was the basis for the biologist Shearwater in Huxley's novel Antic Hay. www.scotclans.com /clans/Haldane/people.html   (795 words)

Overview of Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Haldane was born in Edinburgh into a noted family, which included evangelists Robert (1764 - 1842) and James Haldane (1768 - 1851). Haldane was called to the Bar in 1879 and appointed a Queens Counsel in 1890. Haldane was honoured with the Freedon of the City of Edinburgh in 1912. www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1351.html   (314 words)

Susan or Sarah Haldane & Wm Duncan Richard Haldane of Gleneagles, son of James Haldane and Margaret Erskine, was born about 1525 and died November 1606. The question of Richard's age is of some importance as giving a clue to the year of the marriage of his father, Sir James Haldane; the contract of which is dated December 1518. Richard was a witness on 11th December 1545 to the contract between James Haldane and Stirling of Keir. genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/print.cgi?haldane::11.html   (1436 words)

Richard Burdon Haldane British statesman and philosopher, the third son of Robert Haldane of Cloanden, Perthshire, a writer to the signet, and nephew of J. Burdon-Sanderson. He was included in 1905 in Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet as Secretary of State for War, and was the author of the important scheme for the reorganization of the British army, by which the militia and the volunteer forces were replaced by a single territorial force. Though always known as one of the ablest men of the Liberal party and conspicuous during the Boer War of 1899-1902 as a Liberal Imperialist, the choice of Haldane for the task of thinking out a new army organization on business lines had struck many people as curious. www.nndb.com /people/920/000101617   (297 words)

Sunrise Diving - Phuket - Thailand - John Haldane Haldane was the son of Robert Haldane, and his grandfather was the ScottishJames Alexander Haldane. Haldane was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, then at the Universities of EdinburghJena, and held the degrees of Master of Arts from Edinburgh and Oxford, Doctor of Law from Edinburgh and Birmingham, and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh. Haldane was an international authority on ether and respiration and the inventor of the gas-mask during World War I. (The Sciences and Philosophy: Gifford Lectures, University of Glasgow, 1927–28 by J.S. Haldane, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1929) www.sunrisediving.net /john-haldane.html   (327 words)

Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, (July 30, 1856 - August 19, 1928), was an important British Liberal and Labour politician, lawyer, and philosopher. He was the grandson of the Scottish evangelist James Alexander Haldane. He wrote several philosophical works, the best known of which is The Reign of Relativity (1921), which dealt with the philosophical implications of the theory of relativity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Burdon_Haldane   (570 words)

GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note Along with Edinburgh-born Douglas Haig, Richard Haldane, of the same city, was responsible for the formation of the British Territorial Army (equivalent to the US Army Reserve) in 1908. Haldane was a Liberal Member of the House of Commons for 24 years before entering the Lords. In 1914, Haldane became Britain's first woman trustee of Andrew Carnegie's UK Trust which, she used to keep alive the venerable institution, the Sadler's Wells Theatre and Ballet Company. www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/h1.html   (2648 words)

Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount - HighBeam Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount 1856-1928, British statesman. Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount" at HighBeam. Haldane, Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan www.encyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /doc/1E1-HaldanC.html   (266 words)

Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) He was given a viscountcy in 1911, becoming the Viscount Haldane. Haldane also served as first Chancellor of the University of Bristol, and was elected Chancellor of the University of St Andrews shortly before his death. Lord Haldane's brother was respiratory physiologist John Scott Haldane, and his sister was author Elizabeth Haldane. richard-burdon-haldane.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888   (386 words)

Haldane Personal Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) JAMES ALEXANDER HALDANE HALDANE, JAMES ALEXANDER (1768-1851), Scottish divine, the younger son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey House, Stirlingshire, was born at Dundee on the 14th of July 1768... Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the... Haldane - Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of... www.executivecoaching.us /business/Haldane.html   (1530 words)

Biographie: Lord Richard Burdon Haldane, 1856-1928   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Haldane verhandelt mit der deutschen Regierung über ein Abkommen zur Begrenzung der Flottenaufrüstung (Haldane-Mission). Haldane wird Lordkanzler unter dem liberalen Premierminister Herbert Henry Asquith. Haldane veröffentlicht die Abhandlung "The reign of relativity", in welcher er die philosophischen Folgen der Relativitätstheorie von Albert Einstein erörtert. www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/HaldaneRichard   (211 words)

The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club - Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane As the war progressed, Haldane moved more and more to the left. However, he was held back by his ties to the Liberal Party and to Asquith. Haldane was a vital member of the Cabinet as he was one of only three members who had sat in a cabinet before; the other two had sat only briefly and for junior posts. www.eswsc.com /Presidents/President1904.htm   (404 words)

AllRefer.com - Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia AllRefer.com - Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount, British And Irish History, Biographies Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount 1856–1928, British statesman. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HaldanC.html   (293 words)

HALDANE OF CLOAN, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, VISCOUNT. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Columbia Encyclopedia > Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount He entered (1885) the House of Commons as a Liberal. He wrote a number of philosophical works, including Pathway to Reality (1903), Reign of Relativity (1921), The Philosophy of Humanism (1922), and Selected Addresses and Essays (1928, repr. www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ha/HaldanC.html   (150 words)

Haldane Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane of Cloan - Search Results - MSN Encarta Haldane Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane of Cloan - Search Results - MSN Encarta In the 1895 and 1900 general elections, the Liberals did badly, winning only 177 seats in 1895 and 184 in 1900. Get more results for "Haldane Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane of Cloan" uk.encarta.msn.com /Haldane_Richard_Burdon_Viscount_Haldane_of_Cloan.html   (125 words)

Haldane (HyperDic hyper-dictionary) Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics. Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane. Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937). www.hyperdic.net /dic/haldane.htm   (176 words)

Haldane Family Crest In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany... In the Haldane coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement. Heraldry is defined as the hereditary art or science of blazoning, the description is appropriate technical terms of Coats-of-Arms and other heraldic and armorial insignia, and is of very ancient origin... www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/haldane-family-crest.htm   (509 words)

RICHARD BURDON HALDANE... - Online Information article about RICHARD BURDON HALDANE... Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition. Though always known as one of the ablest men of the Liberal party and conspicuous during the See also: Boer War of 1899–1902 as a Liberal Imperialist, the choice of Mr Haldane for the task of thinking out a new army organization on business lines had struck many See also: encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HALDANE_RICHARD_BURDON_1856_.html   (352 words)

Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928), Statesman, lawyer and philosopher Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928), Statesman, lawyer and philosopher Statesman, lawyer and philosopher; as Secretary of State for War, 1905, was responsible for the re-organisation of the army on modern lines; served as Lord Chancellor under Ramsay Macdonald's first Labour Ministry. The online database contains information on 92,385 works, 51,004 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works. www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01966   (133 words)

Gifford Lecture Series - Biography - Richard Haldane Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Richard Burdon Haldane entered the House of Commons (1885) as a Liberal. As war secretary (1905—1912) he effected drastic army reforms, creating a British expeditionary force, an imperial general staff, an officers’ training corps and the territorial army. www.giffordlectures.org /Author.asp?AuthorID=74   (353 words)

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