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Sir John Haldane, third of Gleneagles was Lord Justice General of Scotland beyond the Forth, sheriff principal of Edinburgh and Master of the Household under James III of Scotland. [1] In 1482 he resigned his lands in Fife , Stirlingshire and Perthshire to the Crown, and as a result received a charter that erected them into the free barony of ...
William Stowell Haldane, Crown Agent for Scotland; Almer de Haldane was a Scottish noble whose signature is found on the Ragman Rolls of King Edward I of England in 1296. Almer de Haldane later sided with King Robert the Bruce of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence against the English. The designation "de Haldane," at that time ...
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, PC, FRS, FSA, FBA (/ ˈ h ɔː l d eɪ n /; 30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928) was a British lawyer, philosopher, and politician. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " Haldane Reforms " of the British Army were implemented.
The Haldane grave, St Cuthberts Churchyard, Edinburgh. The Rev James Alexander Haldane aka Captain James Haldane (14 July 1768 – 8 February 1851) was a Scottish independent church leader following an earlier life as a sea captain.
Douglas Haldane (1926–2012), Scottish child psychiatrist and pioneer of family therapy Duncan Haldane (born 1951), British physicist, Princeton University professor and Nobel Prize laureate Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862–1937), Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, nursing administrator, and social welfare worker
His brother was Graeme Haldane and he married Janet Macrae Simpson-Smith. [2] Like his father and uncles, he attended the Edinburgh Academy, after which he went up to Balliol College, Oxford to read history. [1] He returned to Scotland to enter his father's legal firm and acted for a time as Fiscal to the Society of Writers to the Signet. [1]