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British politician and judge The Right Honourable The Viscount Haldane KT OM PC FRS FSA FBA Haldane in 1919 Lord Chancellor In office 10 June 1912 - 25 May 1915 Monarch George V Prime Minister H. H. Asquith Preceded by The Earl Loreburn Succeeded by The Lord Buckmaster In office 22 January 1924 - 6 November 1924 Monarch George V Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Preceded by The Viscount Cave Succeeded by The Viscount Cave Leader of the House of Lords In office 22 January 1924 - 3 November 1924 Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Preceded by The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Succeeded by The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Secretary of State for War In office 10 December 1905 - 12 June 1912 Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith Preceded by H. O. Arnold-Forster Succeeded by Colonel J.E.B . Seely Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Hereditary peerage 27 March 1911 - 19 August 1928 Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire In office 18 December 1885 - 27 March 1911 Preceded by Hugo Charteris Succeeded by John Hope Personal details Born ( 1856-07-30) 30 July 1856 Edinburgh , Scotland Died 19 August 1928( 1928-08-19 ) ( aged 72 ) Auchterarder , Scotland Political party Liberal ( 1879-1923 ) Labour ( 1923-1928 ) Education University of Göttingen University of Edinburgh Profession Barrister 17 Charlotte Square , Edinburgh , birthplace of Richard Haldane Haldane caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair , 1896 Richard Burdon Haldane , 1st Viscount Haldane , KT , OM , PC , FRS , FSA , FBA ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 July 1856 - 19 August 1928 ) was a Scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential Liberal and later Labour politician and statesman . He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " Haldane Reforms " of the British Army were implemented . As Secretary of State of War , he was instrumental in founding MI5 , MI6 , the Territorial Army , the British Expeditionary Force , and the Royal Air Force . Beyond his military contributions , Haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as Imperial College London and the London School of Economics . His efforts have left a lasting impact on both the UK 's defense and educational landscapes . As an intellectual he was fascinated with German thought . That led to his role in seeking detente with Germany in 1912 in the Haldane Mission . The mission was a failure and tensions with Berlin forced London to work more closely with Paris . Raised to the peerage as Viscount Haldane in 1911 , he was Lord Chancellor between 1912 and 1915 , when he was forced to resign because of allegations of German sympathies . He later joined the Labour Party and again served as Lord Chancellor in 1924 in the first Labour administration . Apart from his legal and political careers , Haldane was an influential writer on philosophy , in recognition of which he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1914 . Background and education Haldane was born at 17 Charlotte Square , Edinburgh , the son of Robert Haldane and his wife Mary Elizabeth , daughter of Richard Burdon-Sanderson . He was the grandson of the Scottish evangelist James Alexander Haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist John Scott Haldane , Sir William Haldane and author Elizabeth Haldane , and the uncle of J. B. S. Haldane , Robert Haldane Makgill and Naomi Mitchison . He received his first education at the Edinburgh Academy , and then at the University of Göttingen . He gained a first and MA at University of Edinburgh where he received first-class honours in Philosophy and was Gray scholar and Ferguson scholar . After studying law in London , he was called to the bar by Lincoln 's Inn , in 1879 , and became a successful lawyer . He was taken on at 5 New Square Chambers by Horace Davey in 1882 as the junior . Haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the Privy Council and House of Lords . By 1890 he had become a Queen 's Counsel . By 1905 he was earning £20,000 per annum at the Bar ( equivalent to £2.7 million in 2023 ) . He became a bencher at Lincoln 's Inn in 1893 . Amongst his early friends was Edmund Gosse , the librarian of the House of Lords library . Haldane was a deep thinker , an unusual breed : a philosopher-politician . During his stay at Göttingen he expanded an interest in the German philosophers , Schopenhauer and Hegel . He had refused a place at Balliol , but in nodding respect for the Master and philosopher , T. H. Green , he dedicated his Essays in Philosophical Criticism to him . Early political career A cousin , the Whig politician Lord Camperdown encouraged the young barrister into standing as a Liberal at the General Election of 1880 . Although not elected that year Haldane joined the Eighty Club , a political dining and discussion club formed in 1879 . Membership was restricted to Liberals under the age of forty . In 1881 Haldane met H. H. Asquith , and they soon became firm friends often meeting at the Blue Post Public house on Cork Street . They were founders of the Albert Grey committee , named after Albert Grey , regularly discussing burning social issues , such as education . In November 1885 , Haldane was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire , a seat he held until 1911 . The philosopher-politician wrote several articles for the advanced and progressive Contemporary Review . In October 1888 , " The Liberal Creed " was published summarising his belief in the direction of New Liberalism . In the 1890 article " The Eight Hours Question " Haldane rejected the idea of the eight-hour day . In 1888 , he courted Emma Valentine Ferguson , sister of his Liberal party friend , Ronald Munro-Ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel Betsy in 1892 . Haldane became firmly ensconced in the Imperialist wing of Liberalism , led by Sir Edward Grey . At the 1892 General Election , he received a shock when nearly defeated by the Liberal Unionist , Walter Hepburne-Scott , Master of Polwarth . Beatrice Webb , the socialist who was a close intimate , remarked on how alone Haldane was in the world . Haldane added the preface to Leonard Hobhouse 's The Labour Movement in 1893 . Emma Ferguson died insane in 1897 . Webb remarked , " He had pathos in his personality , a successful lawyer tinged with socialism . " Liberal Imperialist Focusing on his writings , Haldane was passed over for political office , being the only one of his group left out in the wilderness . Haldane remained an ally of Asquith and Grey in the Liberal Imperialist wing of the party , followers of Lord Rosebery rather than of Sir William Harcourt . Rosebery admired Haldane 's intellect , and the Scotsman urged upon his friend , whom he had known since 1886 , an assault on Tory power in the Lords in 1894 . Haldane joined friends at the Articles Club , including Asquith and Grey . Haldane was disappointed having failed to secure the post of Solicitor-General in October 1894 . Asquith wryly remarked " A very wrong decision come to upon inadequate grounds . " Haldane was sounded out for the Speakership by Rosebery , but refused it , declaring it to be a political death . At a meeting with Beatrice Webb Haldane told her he was disconsolate at the condition of the Liberal Party : " Rot has set in there is no hope now but to be beaten and then reconstruct a new party " . The leaders of the party were exasperated and believed Rosebery to lack planning and direction . " Although Asquith , Grey and I " , wrote Haldane , " stuck by him... we never knew when he would retire and leave us in the lurch " . When Rosebery offered the Speakership , he refused it that March . However , on 11 October 1896 , he wrote to Rosebery that he " was the leader of a revolution in our party " . On 11 August 1902 , Haldane was admitted to the Privy Council , following an announcement of the King 's intention to make the appointment in the 1902 Coronation Honours list , published in June that year . The King used his influence and charm to cultivate allies , bringing cross-party groups like The Souls together in consensual amity . Balfour 's administration leant on Haldane 's philosophy for educational reforms . After the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour fell in December 1905 there was some speculation that Asquith and his allies Haldane and Grey would refuse to serve unless Henry Campbell-Bannerman accepted a peerage , which would have left Asquith as the real leader in the House of Commons . Haldane had suggested involving the King at Balmoral to ' kick CB upstairs ' . However , the plot ( called " The Relugas Compact " after Grey 's Scottish lodge where the men met ) collapsed when Asquith agreed to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Campbell-Bannerman . Haldane wrote , " One longs for Rosebery had he been coming in to his right place at the head of affairs , we could have gone anywhere with confidence . But it seems now as if this were not to be and we have to do the only thing we can do , which is to resolutely follow a plan of concerted action " . On 13 December 1905 , Haldane was appointed Secretary of State for War , but he may have been offered the jobs of Attorney-General and Home Secretary . ( Grey became Foreign Secretary ) . Unity in the Liberals helped them obtain the largest electoral majority in the party 's history in the 1906 general election . Secretary of State for War As early as January 1906 Haldane was persuaded by fellow Liberal Imperialist Edward Grey to begin planning for a Continental war in support of the French against the Germans . However , Haldane 's first estimates reduced the Army by 16,600 men and reduced expenditure by £2.6m to £28 million , as the Liberals had been elected on a platform of retrenchment . By 1914 Britain spent 3.4 % of national income on defence , little more in absolute terms than Austria-Hungary 's 6.1 % . Army expenditure was determined according to a formula devised by the Esher Committee . In 1900 , during the Boer War , army expenditure was £86.8m , by 1910 ( a low point , after four years of cuts under the Liberals ) it had dropped to £27.6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £29.4m . In March 1914 effective expenditure on the Army , after allowing for increased pensions and £1m set aside for military aviation , was still less than in 1907-8 , and £2m less than in 1905-6 ( despite a 20 % rise in prices since then ) . In October 1907 Haldane was intimately involved with the negotiations at Windsor with Kaiser Wilhelm II . The Germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the Emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . But the import was the Berlin-Baghdad railway which Germany was hoping to construct with British approval . A fluent German-speaker , Haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . Another such conference took place at Balmoral in September 1909 . But the Kaiser , refusing to converse with a mere secretary , arrogantly insisted that only the King was of equal rank . Despite the budgetary constraints , Haldane implemented a wide-ranging set of reforms of the Army , aimed at preparing the army for an Imperial war but with the more likely ( and secret ) task of a European war . The main element of this was the establishment of the British Expeditionary Force of six infantry divisions and one cavalry division . The Official Historian Brigadier James Edmonds later wrote that " in every respect the Expeditionary Force of 1914 was incomparably the best trained , best organised and best equipped British Army ever to leave these shores " Haldane at West Point sometime before the Great War . Richard Haldane leaving reviewing grounds with Clarence Page Townsley : Capt E.R Householder ; Capt E.R. Gregory Army reforms Main article : Haldane Reforms Haldane set up the Imperial General Staff . Before Haldane , there was only the Defence Committee of the Cabinet , which met only in emergencies , and the Colonial Defence Committee . Esher had recommended the setting up of an Army Council and the abolition of the post of Commander-in-Chief , but few of his recommendations had been implemented before the change of government in December 1905 . Haldane 's reforms also created the Territorial Force of 14 divisions ( the original plan was for 28 ) and 14 mounted Yeomanry brigades at home , the Officer Training Corps and the Special Reserve . In all the reforms , Haldane worked closely at the War Office with Major-General Haig . By coincidence , both men had been born in Charlotte Square , in Edinburgh . J. A . Spender later wrote of how Haldane got the best work out of an able but verbally-incoherent soldier ( thought to refer to Haig ) by not scoring verbal points off him , as many politicians would have done . Usually critical , Rosebery remarked on Haldane 's interest in philosophy , declaring : " I have read his Secret Memorandum , and that was enough " . In 1907 and 1908 , Haldane passed far-reaching reforms to Army management . He was accredited as an efficient bureaucratic leader , notably founding the Territorial Army in a Second Memorandum . His reforms re-oriented British military policy , revamped army organization along the lines of the German General Staff , upgraded the training of the auxiliary forces , and created an efficient and economically run service . Those reforms enabled Britain to send some 120,000 men to France in fifteen days in August 1914 . Haldane was also instrumental in the creation the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the United Kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . Philosopher-politician Throughout his long career and association with the modernisers or ' Limps ' Haldane used his considerable intellect to great advantage against economy . A radical liberal , Haldane was also , according to historian Martin Pugh , one of the " best supporters " of David Lloyd George 's " People 's Budget . " During the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , Haldane advised his friend and Prime Minister , Asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from Churchill and Lloyd George . Stumbling from illness to illness , Haldane 's own bad health was similar to King Edward 's declining fortunes . The Viscount Haldane , Lord Chancellor , 1912 Two elections ensued , one in January and another in December 1910 , before in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Haldane , of Cloan in the County of Perth . He became Leader in the Lords , responsible for the passage of the Parliament Act . On Lord Loreburn 's retirement in June 1912 , Haldane succeeded him as Lord Chancellor , making a self-deprecating speech as to his abilities as a legal expert . Haldane Mission of 1912 to Berlin Main article : Haldane Mission 1912 saw the unsuccessful attempt of the Haldane Mission , an effort to quell the friction between Britain and Germany arising because of their escalating naval arms race . The mission was a failure because the Germans would agree to slow the tempo of its warship construction only if Britain promised to remain neutral if Germany should become engaged in a war where " Germany could not be said to be the aggressor . " Above all Berlin wanted Britain to remain neutral in a war between Germany and France . That carried an unacceptable risk encouraging Germany to go to war with France or Russia and taking control of the continent . First World War In March 1914 Haldane 's successor at the War Office , Jack Seely , resigned following the Curragh incident . Rather than appoint a successor , Asquith decided to take over responsibility for the War Office directly himself . Asquith relied heavily on Haldane as the previous War Secretary and empowered him to carry out tasks at the War Office on his behalf . As the situation in Europe worsened , Asquith kept Haldane abreast of developments with Sir Edward Grey at the Foreign Office . Haldane was one of the first members of the Cabinet to recognise that war with Germany was inevitable and persuaded Asquith to mobilise by assembly of the Army Council on 3 August . With war imminent , Asquith was happy for Haldane to continue at the War Office formally as Secretary of State for War , but Haldane persuaded him to appoint Field Marshal Kitchener . Following the outbreak of the First World War Haldane was falsely accused of pro-German sympathies , in July 1914 , for hosting Albert Ballin , a German shipping magnate and unofficial mediator between Germany and Britain . The accusations were widely believed and were even echoed in a popular music hall song ( " All dressed up and nowhere to go " ) in the revue " Mr Manhattan " . He was harried in particular by Beaverbrook 's Daily Express , which gave great publicity to the claim by Professor Onkel of Heidelberg that he had said " Germany was his spiritual home " . He had in fact said that about Professor Hermann Lotze 's classroom at Göttingen at a dinner party given by Mrs Humphry Ward in April 1913 to enable him to meet some German professors during his mission . In 1915 Asquith ranked his Cabinet , putting Haldane only sixth of the inner cabinet members . Dismissal from office Following the shell crisis and the resignation of Lord Fisher , in May 1915 the Liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the Conservatives who , under the leadership of Bonar Law , insisted on the removal of Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and the dismissal of Haldane . Haldane 's removal was on account of the popularity of the press 's campaign relating to Haldane 's alleged pro-German sympathies . Neither the former prime minister Arthur Balfour , Haldane 's closest friend amongst the Conservatives , nor Asquith , the Liberal prime minister of the day and Haldane 's closest political ally and friend for over 30 years , did anything to resist Bonar Law 's demands . Roy Jenkins in his biography of Asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and Max Egremont describes Balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . To the detriment of their relationship , Asquith gave no personal expression to Haldane . Jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of Asquith 's whole career " attributing it to Asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , Venetia Stanley , to one of his government ministers , Edwin Montagu . Following his departure from the government Haldane went to the front to meet his old friend General Haig , and his cousin , General Aylmer Haldane , but he was exhausted on being ejected from Cabinet . Having been awarded the Order of Merit in 1915 , in the personal gift of George V , he wrote a Memorandum of Events , 1906-15 , to defend his reputation . It was published in April 1916 . Haldane thought Lloyd George 's new government , formed in December 1916 , " very low class " . Haldane told Lord Buckmaster at this time , " Asquith is a first-class head of a deliberative council . He is versed in precedents , acts on principle , and knows how and when to compromise . Lloyd George knows nothing for precedents and cares for no principles , but he has fire in his belly and that is what we want . " As the war progressed Haldane moved increasingly close to the Labour Party , but he was held back by his ties to the Liberal Party and to Asquith . When the Irish War of Independence broke out in 1919 , Haldane was one of the first British politicians to argue that the solution lay in compromise rather than force . Contribution to Canadian constitutional law As Lord Chancellor , Haldane was a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council , at that time the court of last resort for the Empire . He retained the position even when he was no longer Chancellor . He sat on several cases from Canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the Canadian Constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the British North America Act 1867 . He gave the decision for the Judicial Committee in several of those cases , and showed a marked tendency to favour the provincial powers at the expense of the federal government . For instance , in the case of In re the Board of Commerce Act , 1919 , and the Combines and Fair Prices Act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the Canadian legislature . In doing so , he gave very restrictive readings to both the " peace , order and good government " power of the federal government , as well as the federal criminal law power . Similarly , in Toronto Electric Commissioners v. Snider , Lord Haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . He went so far as to suggest that the trade and commerce power was simply an ancillary federal power , which could not authorise legislation in its own right . The effects of some of these decisions have subsequently been modified by later decisions of the Judicial Committee and the Supreme Court of Canada , but they have had the long-term effect of recognising substantial provincial powers . Haldane 's approach to the division of powers was heavily criticised by some academics and lawyers in Canada , such as F. R. Scott and Chief Justice Bora Laskin , as unduly favouring the provinces over the federal government and depriving it of the powers needed to deal with modern economic issues . More recently , one major study has characterised him as " the wicked stepfather " of the Canadian Constitution . Influence on education In 1895 , Haldane helped the Webbs found the London School of Economics . A fundamental believer in the power of improving education , he prepared the London University Act 1898 . The philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the Hegelian complex , and the ideas of Schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . His moral centrism sought to unify The New Liberalism , as he published it in Contemporary Review . From a pan-European perspective he analysed the German character and economic advances towards militarism . He was largely responsible for the cross-party support for Balfour 's Education Act 1902 . He told Rosebery " a sense of nation is working towards ...a great centre party . " He was also involved in the founding of Imperial College in 1907 and in his honour the University contained the Haldane Recreational Library , which now forms part of the main library collection . Haldane was a member of the Coefficients dining club of social reformers set up in 1902 by the Fabian campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb . He wrote a biography of Adam Smith , extolling the virtues of free trade . Unlike Joseph Chamberlain he thought there was no strong connection between fiscal and imperial unity . He opposed any attempt to protection of British trade . In 1904 , he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the Club 's annual dinner , addressing " The dedicated life " to a group of students on 10 January 1907 . He also served as second Chancellor of the University of Bristol where he made an important address titled " The Civic University " outlining his educational philosophy in 1911 . At the end of his life Lord Haldane was elected Chancellor of the University of St Andrews in June 1928 . Perhaps his greatest speech on education was made in House of Lords on 12 July 1916 , at the height of the terrible slaughter on the Western Front . Writings Haldane co-translated the first English edition of Schopenhauer 's The World as Will and Representation , published between 1883 and 1886 . 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 . Haldane published " The Pathway to Reality " , based on the Gifford Lectures which he had delivered at the University of St Andrews . Some of his public addresses have also been published , including The future of democracy ( 1918 ) . * The Pathway to Reality . London : John Murray . 1903 . * The Pathway to Reality : Stage the Second . New York : E. P. Dutton and Co. 1904 . Army Reform and Other Addresses ( 1907 ) The Conduct of Life , and Other Addresses . London . 1914 . Before the War. 1920 . The Reign of Relativity . Toronto : Macmillan . 1921 . The philosophy of humanism and of other subjects . Toronto : Macmillan . 1922 . Human Experience : A Study of Its Structure . E.P. Dutton . 1926 . Papers and photographs of Richard Burdon Haldane , 1st viscount Haldane , and of the Haldane family . , National Library of Scotland An Autobiography . London : Hodder and Stoughton . 1929 . OCLC 771158008 . OL 19765733W. Personal life Portrait by Philip de László , 1928 Haldane had health problems all his life . He suffered from bad rheumatism , a stigmata in the eye and in 1909 , he had to take bed rest when going blind from iritis . A lifelong walker and cigar smoker , he was diagnosed diabetic . " The latter is a large , fat man " was Haig 's initial impression of a dignified but portly demeanour . Yet , added Haig , " One seems to like the man at once . " Having worked on the Army Regulations of 1909 , Haig applauded " a most clear headed and practical man--very ready to listen and weigh carefully all that is said to him . " Osbert Sitwell described him as " entering a room with the air of a whole procession " . Leo Amery said he looked like " the old-fashioned family butler " . Another Imperialist , Winston Churchill also respected Haldane , although they were from differing social backgrounds . On promoting Churchill to First Lord of the Admiralty , Asquith advised him to seek Haldane 's advice at a meeting held at Archerfield , North Berwick . From 1907 to 1908 , he was president of the Aristotelian Society . Haldane remained a lifelong bachelor after his fiancée , Miss Valentine Ferguson , broke off their engagement . He died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Auchterarder , Scotland , on 19 August 1928 , aged 72 . The viscountcy became extinct on his death . Later years In December 1918 , Lloyd George appointed Haldane chairman of ' The Machinery of Government ' committee . However , the Armistice had taken all impetus out of the reform agenda . This work led to the idea that decisions about what to spend research funds on should be made by researchers rather than politicians being named the Haldane principle . At the time of the Paisley by-election of January 1920 Haldane was in the process of shifting his sympathies from Liberal to Labour , and was wrongly thought to have endorsed Labour ( earning a rebuke from Margot Asquith , whom Haldane thought " tiresome because she is ignorant " , to his aged mother ) . In fact he favoured Asquith 's election on a personal level . Being a fluent German speaker , ascetic philosopher and atheist , he played host to Albert Einstein , when he visited London in 1921 . As President of the Institute of Public Administration , he was a leading intellectual on the philosophy of governance . " The Reign of Relativity " combined Haldane 's love of all things German expressed by Goethe and his works , with the Hegelian military-industrial complex . Haldane admired the fact that Germans were " trained to obey " . Hegel 's aristocratic desire for law and order and defence of property against revolution had a mathematical symmetry . Hegel was a purist : his work attempted to keep science and philosophy apart . The rising tide of New Liberalism and moral realism was for Haldane , Hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . Haldane refused to join the platform for Asquith 's speech at Westminster Central Hall in January 1922 . He stated that his main interest in public life was now education reform and that the cause was not best served by endorsing the Liberal Party . It was not until the general election of 1923 that Haldane formally sided with Labour , and made several speeches on behalf of Labour candidates . When the Labour government was formed by Ramsay MacDonald in early 1924 , Haldane served once again as Lord Chancellor . He was also joint Leader of the Labour Peers with Lord Parmoor . Haldane was a vital member of the Cabinet as he was one of only three members who had sat in a cabinet before . Haldane was responsible for drafting the London University Act 1926 , purchasing properties in Euston . He made some famous speeches at Toynbee Hall for the Annual American Seminar . Arms CAPTION : Coat of arms of Richard Haldane , 1st Viscount Haldane Crest An eagle 's head erased Or . Escutcheon Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a saltire engrailed Sable ( Haldane ) ; 2nd Argent a saltire between four roses Gules ( Lennox ) ; 3rd Or a bend chequy Sable & Argent ( Menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent Sable , all within a bordure Or . Motto Suffer Orders Order of the Thistle Order of Merit ( not pictured ) Legacy In November 1923 Lord Birkenhead , the Conservative politician , praised Haldane 's contribution to Britain 's preparedness for the First World War : In the welter of sentimentality , amid which Great Britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , Lord Haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . In speech fluent and even infinite he yielded to no living idealist in the easy coinage of sentimental phraseology . Here , indeed , he was a match for those who distributed the chloroform of Berlin . Do we not remember , for instance , that Germany was his spiritual home ? But he none the less prepared himself , and the Empire , to talk when the time came with his spiritual friends in language not in the least spiritual . He devised the Territorial Army , which was capable of becoming the easy nucleus of national conscription , and which unquestionably ought to have been used for that purpose at the outbreak of war . He created the Imperial General Staff . He founded the Officers ' Training Corps . — Lord Birkenhead ( n.d. ) , Idealism in International Politics . A Rectorial Address , Delivered on November 23rd ( PDF ) , Peterborough : The Peterborough Press , p. 9 On Haldane 's death The Times described him as " one of the most powerful , subtle and encyclopaedic intellects ever devoted to the public service of his country " . The military historian Correlli Barnett claimed that Haldane had " all-round personal talents far exceeding those of his predecessors " as Secretary of State for War and that he was " a man of first-class intellect and wide education " . Walter Reid believed Haldane to be the greatest of the Secretaries for War . Decided cases * Heilbut , Symons & Co v Buckleton UKHL 2 , no damages for non-fraudulent misrepresentation , reversed by Hedley Byrne * British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co v Underground Electric Railway Co of London AC 673 , 689 , on mitigation * Kreglinger v New Patagonia Meat & Cold Storage Co Ltd UKHL 1 , no clog on equity of redemption * Sinclair v Brougham AC 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * Nocton v Lord Ashburton AC 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge & Co Ltd UKHL 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * Lennard 's Carrying Co Ltd v Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd AC 705 , directors are presumed to be the controlling minds of the company * Cook v Deeks UKPC 10 , no conflicts of interest for company directors * Jones v Jones 2 AC 487 * Great West Saddlery Company Limited and others v The King UKPC 27 * Macedo v Stroud AC 330 , property transfer * Jasperson v Dominion Tobacco Co AC 709 , interference with contractual relations * Lake v Simmons AC 487 |
| british [UNKNOWN] politician [PERSON] and judge the right honourable [UNKNOWN] the viscount haldane [PERSON] kt om pc frs [PERSON] fsa [PERSON] fba [PERSON] haldane [PERSON] in 1919 lord chancellor [PERSON] in office [PLACE] 10 june [PERIOD] 1912 - 25 may [PERIOD] 1915 monarch [PERSON] george v [PERSON] prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] h. h. asquith [PERSON] preceded by the earl loreburn [PERSON] succeeded by the lord buckmaster [PERSON] in office [PLACE] 22 january [PERIOD] 1924 - 6 november [PERIOD] 1924 monarch [PERSON] george v [PERSON] prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] ramsay macdonald [PERSON] preceded by the viscount cave [PERSON] succeeded by the viscount cave leader [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] of lords [PERSON] in office [PLACE] 22 january [PERIOD] 1924 - 3 november [PERIOD] 1924 prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] ramsay macdonald [PERSON] preceded by the marquess curzon [PERSON] of kedleston [UNKNOWN] succeeded by the marquess curzon [PERSON] of kedleston secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] in office [PLACE] 10 december [PERIOD] 1905 - 12 june [PERIOD] 1912 prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith [PERSON] preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b [PERSON] . seely member [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] of lords lord temporal hereditary [PERSON] peerage [COLLECTION] 27 march [PERIOD] 1911 - 19 august [PERIOD] 1928 member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] for haddingtonshire [PLACE] in office [PLACE] 18 december [PERIOD] 1885 - 27 march [PERIOD] 1911 preceded by hugo [PERSON] charteris succeeded by john hope [EVENT] personal details born [PERSON] ( 1856-07-30) 30 july [PERIOD] 1856 edinburgh [INSTITUTION] , scotland [PLACE] died 19 august [PERIOD] 1928( 1928-08-19 ) ( aged 72 ) auchterarder [UNKNOWN] , scotland [PLACE] political party liberal [PERSON] ( 1879-1923 ) labour [PERSON] ( 1923-1928 ) education university [INSTITUTION] of göttingen university [INSTITUTION] of edinburgh [INSTITUTION] profession barrister [PERSON] 17 charlotte square [PLACE] , edinburgh [INSTITUTION] , birthplace [LOCATION] of richard haldane [PERSON] haldane [PERSON] caricatured by spy [RESOURCE] in vanity fair [PERSON] , 1896 richard burdon haldane [PERSON] , 1st viscount haldane [PERSON] , kt , om , pc , frs [PERSON] , fsa [PERSON] , fba [PERSON] ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july [PERIOD] 1856 - 19 august [PERIOD] 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer [PERSON] , philosopher [PERSON] , influential liberal [PERSON] and later labour politician [PERSON] and statesman [PERSON] . he was secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] between 1905 and 1912 during which time [PERIOD] the " haldane reforms [AMOUNT] " of the british army [HUMAN GROUP] were implemented . as secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] of war [EVENT] , he was instrumental in founding [NUMBER] mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army [HUMAN GROUP] , the british expeditionary force [FORCE] [FORCE] , and the royal air [AIR] force [FORCE] . beyond his military contributions [EVENT] , haldane [PERSON] was a significant figure [FIGURE] in education [PROCESS] , contributing to the founding [NUMBER] of institutions [INSTITUTION] such as imperial college london [PLACE] and the london school [INSTITUTION] of economics [STUDY] . his efforts [ACTION] have left a lasting impact [ACTION] on both the uk 's defense [PERSON] and educational landscapes [SITUATION] . as an intellectual [PERSON] he was fascinated with german thought [UNKNOWN] . that led to his role [ROLE] in seeking detente [UNKNOWN] with germany [PLACE] in 1912 in the haldane mission [PERSON] . the mission [PERSON] was a failure [ABSTRACT ENTITY] and tensions [CONDITION] with berlin [PLACE] forced london [PLACE] to work [ACTIVITY] more closely with paris [PLACE] . raised to the peerage [COLLECTION] as viscount haldane [PERSON] in 1911 , he was lord chancellor [PERSON] between 1912 and 1915 , when he was forced to resign because of allegations [ACT] of german sympathies [PERSON] . he later joined the labour party [FORCE] and again served as lord chancellor [PERSON] in 1924 in the first labour administration [ARRANGEMENT] . apart from his legal and political careers [STATE] , haldane [PERSON] was an influential writer [PERSON] on philosophy [GROUP] , in recognition [ACT] of which he was elected a fellow [EVENT] of the british academy [INSTITUTION] in 1914 . background [INFORMATION] and education haldane [PERSON] was born at 17 charlotte square [PLACE] , edinburgh [INSTITUTION] , the son [PERSON] of robert haldane [PERSON] and his wife mary elizabeth [PERSON] , daughter [PERSON] of richard burdon-sanderson . he was the grandson [PERSON] of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane [PERSON] , the brother [PERSON] of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane [PERSON] , sir william haldane [PERSON] and author elizabeth haldane [PERSON] , and the uncle [PERSON] of j. b. s. haldane [PERSON] , robert haldane [PERSON] makgill [PERSON] and naomi mitchison [PERSON] . he received his first education [PROCESS] at the edinburgh academy [INSTITUTION] , and then at the university [INSTITUTION] of göttingen [INSTITUTION] . he gained a first and ma at university [INSTITUTION] of edinburgh [INSTITUTION] where he received first-class honours [UNKNOWN] in philosophy [GROUP] and was gray scholar [PERSON] and ferguson scholar [PERSON] . after studying law [PERSON] in london [PLACE] , he was called to the bar [PLACE] by lincoln [PERSON] 's inn [BODY] , in 1879 , and became a successful lawyer [PERSON] . he was taken on at 5 new square chambers [PLACE] by horace [PERSON] davey in 1882 as the junior [PERSON] . haldane [PERSON] 's practice [COLLECTION] was a specialism [CONCEPT] in conveyancing ; a particular skill [SKILL] for pleadings [ACT] at appeal and tribunal cases [STUDY] , bringing cases [STUDY] to the privy council [HUMAN GROUP] and house [PLACE] of lords [PERSON] . by 1890 he had become a queen [PERSON] 's counsel [PERSON] . by 1905 he was earning £20,000 per annum [TIME PERIOD] at the bar [PLACE] ( equivalent [ABSTRACT ENTITY] to £2.7 million in 2023 ) . he became a bencher [PERSON] at lincoln [PERSON] 's inn [BODY] in 1893 . amongst his early friends [FUNCTION] was edmund gosse [PERSON] , the librarian [PERSON] of the house [PLACE] of lords library [PLACE] . haldane [PERSON] was a deep thinker [PERSON] , an unusual breed [RACE] : a philosopher-politician . during his stay [PERSON] at göttingen [INSTITUTION] he expanded an interest [ACT] in the german philosophers [PERSON] , schopenhauer [PERSON] and hegel [PERSON] . he had refused a place [PLACE] at balliol [PERSON] , but in nodding respect [EVENT] for the master [PERSON] and philosopher [PERSON] , t. h. green [PERSON] , he dedicated his essays [UNKNOWN] in philosophical criticism [ACT] to him . early political career [STATE] a cousin [PERSON] , the whig politician [PERSON] lord camperdown [PERSON] encouraged the young barrister [PERSON] into standing as a liberal [PERSON] at the general election [PROCESS] of 1880 . although not elected that year haldane [PERSON] joined the eighty club [INSTITUTION] , a political dining [EVENT] and discussion club [INSTITUTION] formed in 1879 . membership [BODY] was restricted to liberals [PERSON] under the age [PROPERTY] of forty . in 1881 haldane [PERSON] met h. h. asquith [PERSON] , and they soon became firm friends [FUNCTION] often meeting [ACTIVITY] at the blue post [UNKNOWN] public house [PLACE] on cork street [PLACE] . they were founders [PERSON] of the albert grey [PERSON] committee [HUMAN GROUP] , named after albert grey [PERSON] , regularly discussing burning social issues [ACTION] , such as education [PROCESS] . in november [PERIOD] 1885 , haldane [PERSON] was elected liberal member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] for haddingtonshire [PLACE] , a seat [ABSTRACT ENTITY] he held until 1911 . the philosopher-politician wrote several articles [UNKNOWN] for the advanced and progressive contemporary review [ACT] . in october [PERIOD] 1888 , " the liberal [PERSON] creed [PERSON] " was published summarising his belief [TRUST] in the direction [DIRECTION] of new liberalism [BODY] . in the 1890 article [ARTICLE] " the eight hours question [QUESTION] " haldane [PERSON] rejected the idea [ACT] of the eight-hour day [PERIOD] . in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson [PERSON] , sister [PERSON] of his liberal party [FORCE] friend [PERSON] , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement [STATE] and subsequently lampooned him in her novel [EVENT] betsy in 1892 . haldane [PERSON] became firmly ensconced in the imperialist [PERSON] wing [PERSON] of liberalism [BODY] , led by sir edward grey [PERSON] . at the 1892 general election [PROCESS] , he received a shock [EVENT] when nearly defeated by the liberal unionist [PERSON] , walter hepburne-scott , master [PERSON] of polwarth [UNKNOWN] . beatrice webb [PERSON] , the socialist [PERSON] who was a close intimate [PERSON] , remarked on how alone haldane [PERSON] was in the world [PLACE] . haldane [PERSON] added the preface [ABILITY] to leonard hobhouse [PERSON] 's the labour movement [HUMAN GROUP] in 1893 . emma ferguson [PERSON] died insane [UNKNOWN] in 1897 . webb [PERSON] remarked , " he had pathos [UNKNOWN] in his personality [STATE] , a successful lawyer [PERSON] tinged with socialism [GROUP] . " liberal [PERSON] imperialist [PERSON] focusing on his writings [EVENT] , haldane [PERSON] was passed over for political office [PLACE] , being the only one of his group [GROUP] left out [WORD] in the wilderness [INSTITUTION] . haldane [PERSON] remained an ally of asquith [PERSON] and grey [PERSON] in the liberal imperialist [PERSON] wing [PERSON] of the party [FORCE] , followers [PERSON] of lord rosebery [PERSON] rather than of sir william harcourt [PERSON] . rosebery [PERSON] admired haldane [PERSON] 's intellect [FORM] , and the scotsman [PERSON] urged upon his friend [PERSON] , whom he had known since 1886 , an assault [UNKNOWN] on tory power [POWER] in the lords [PERSON] in 1894 . haldane [PERSON] joined friends [FUNCTION] at the articles club [INSTITUTION] , including asquith [PERSON] and grey [PERSON] . haldane [PERSON] was disappointed having failed to secure the post [UNKNOWN] of solicitor-general in october [PERIOD] 1894 . asquith [PERSON] wryly remarked " a very wrong decision [DECISION] come to upon inadequate grounds [UNKNOWN] . " haldane [PERSON] was sounded out [WORD] for the speakership [UNKNOWN] by rosebery [PERSON] , but refused it , declaring it to be a political death [EVENT] . at a meeting [ACTIVITY] with beatrice webb [PERSON] haldane [PERSON] told her he was disconsolate at the condition [CONDITION] of the liberal party [FORCE] : " rot [PERSON] has set [SET] in there is no hope [EVENT] now but to be beaten and then reconstruct a new party [FORCE] " . the leaders [PERSON] of the party [FORCE] were exasperated and believed rosebery [PERSON] to lack planning [UNKNOWN] and direction [DIRECTION] . " although asquith [PERSON] , grey [PERSON] and i " , wrote haldane [PERSON] , " stuck by him... we never knew when he would retire and leave us in the lurch [PERSON] " . when rosebery [PERSON] offered the speakership [UNKNOWN] , he refused it that march [PERIOD] . however , on 11 october [PERIOD] 1896 , he wrote to rosebery [PERSON] that he " was the leader [PERSON] of a revolution [STUDY] in our party [FORCE] " . on 11 august [PERIOD] 1902 , haldane [PERSON] was admitted to the privy council [HUMAN GROUP] , following an announcement [EVENT] of the king [PERSON] 's intention [PROCESS] to make the appointment [DECISION] in the 1902 coronation honours [UNKNOWN] list [ACT] , published in june [PERIOD] that year [PERIOD] . the king [PERSON] used his influence [ELEMENT] and charm [PERSON] to cultivate allies [PERSON] , bringing cross-party groups like the souls [PERSON] together in consensual amity [EVENT] . balfour [PERSON] 's administration [ARRANGEMENT] leant on haldane [PERSON] 's philosophy [GROUP] for educational reforms [AMOUNT] . after the conservative government [GOVERNMENT] of arthur balfour [PERSON] fell in december [PERIOD] 1905 there was some speculation [ACT] that asquith [PERSON] and his allies [PERSON] haldane [PERSON] and grey [PERSON] would refuse to serve unless henry campbell-bannerman accepted a peerage [COLLECTION] , which would have left asquith [PERSON] as the real leader [PERSON] in the house [PLACE] of commons [UNKNOWN] . haldane [PERSON] had suggested involving the king [PERSON] at balmoral [PERSON] to ' kick cb upstairs [UNKNOWN] ' . however , the plot [RESOURCE] ( called " the relugas compact [AGREEMENT] " after grey [PERSON] 's scottish lodge [SEQUENCE] where the men [PERSON] met ) collapsed when asquith [PERSON] agreed to serve as chancellor [PERSON] of the exchequer [AMOUNT] under campbell-bannerman . haldane [PERSON] wrote , " one longs [PERSON] for rosebery [PERSON] had he been coming in to his right [UNKNOWN] place [PLACE] at the head [HEAD] of affairs [ACTION] , we could have gone anywhere with confidence [EMOTION] . but it seems now as if this were not to be and we have to do the only thing [ENTITY] we can do , which is to resolutely follow a plan [PLAN] of concerted action [ACTION] " . on 13 december [PERIOD] 1905 , haldane [PERSON] was appointed secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] , but he may [PERIOD] have been offered the jobs [PROCESS] of attorney-general and home secretary [PERSON] . ( grey [PERSON] became foreign secretary [PERSON] ) . unity [DOCUMENT PART] in the liberals [PERSON] helped them obtain the largest electoral majority [PROPERTY] in the party [FORCE] 's history [SITUATION] in the 1906 general election [PROCESS] . secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] as early as january [PERIOD] 1906 haldane [PERSON] was persuaded by fellow [EVENT] liberal imperialist [PERSON] edward grey [PERSON] to begin planning [UNKNOWN] for a continental war [EVENT] in support [ACT] of the french [PLACE] against the germans [UNKNOWN] . however , haldane [PERSON] 's first estimates [PLACE] reduced the army [HUMAN GROUP] by 16,600 men [PERSON] and reduced expenditure [ACT] by £2.6m to £28 million , as the liberals [PERSON] had been elected on a platform [PLACE] of retrenchment [STUDY] . by 1914 britain spent [PLACE] 3.4 % of national income [DISEASE] on defence [PERSON] , little more in absolute terms [TERM] than austria-hungary 's 6.1 % . army expenditure [ACT] was determined according to a formula [EVENT] devised by the esher committee [HUMAN GROUP] . in 1900 , during the boer war [EVENT] , army expenditure [ACT] was £86.8m , by 1910 ( a low point [PLACE] , after four years [PERIOD] of cuts [STATE] under the liberals [PERSON] ) it had dropped to £27.6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £29.4m . in march [PERIOD] 1914 effective expenditure [ACT] on the army [HUMAN GROUP] , after allowing for increased pensions [INSTANCE] and £1m set [SET] aside for military aviation [VEHICLE] , was still less than in 1907-8 , and £2m less than in 1905-6 ( despite a 20 % rise in prices [AMOUNT] since then ) . in october [PERIOD] 1907 haldane [PERSON] was intimately involved with the negotiations [PROCESS] at windsor [PLACE] with kaiser wilhelm ii [PERSON] . the germanophile [UNKNOWN] and linguist [VERTEBRATE] was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor [PERSON] over whisky [UNKNOWN] on arms reduction principles [NATURE] . but the import [FORM] was the berlin-baghdad railway [SYSTEM] which germany [PLACE] was hoping to construct with british [UNKNOWN] approval . a fluent [PERSON] german-speaker , haldane [PERSON] was lulled into a false sense [SOUND] of security [FORCE] believing ' like a bear [PERSON] with a sore head [HEAD] ' that he had won a great deal [SITUATION] . another such conference [ACT] took place [PLACE] at balmoral [PERSON] in september [PERIOD] 1909 . but the kaiser [PERSON] , refusing to converse with a mere secretary [PERSON] , arrogantly insisted that only the king [PERSON] was of equal rank [RANK] . despite the budgetary constraints [CONDITION] , haldane [PERSON] implemented a wide-ranging set [SET] of reforms [AMOUNT] of the army [HUMAN GROUP] , aimed at preparing the army [HUMAN GROUP] for an imperial war [EVENT] but with the more likely ( and secret [FORM] ) task [UNKNOWN] of a european war [EVENT] . the main element [ELEMENT] of this was the establishment [ACT] of the british [UNKNOWN] expeditionary force [FORCE] of six infantry divisions [PROCESS] and one cavalry division [PROCESS] . the official historian brigadier james edmonds [PERSON] later wrote that " in every respect [EVENT] the expeditionary force [FORCE] of 1914 was incomparably the best trained , best organised and best equipped british army [HUMAN GROUP] ever to leave these shores [LAND] " haldane [PERSON] at west point [PLACE] sometime before the great war [EVENT] . richard haldane [PERSON] leaving reviewing grounds [UNKNOWN] with clarence page townsley [PERSON] : capt e.r householder [PERSON] ; capt e.r. gregory army [HUMAN GROUP] reforms [AMOUNT] main article [ARTICLE] : haldane reforms [AMOUNT] haldane [PERSON] set [SET] up the imperial general staff [PLACE] . before haldane [PERSON] , there was only the defence committee [HUMAN GROUP] of the cabinet [ACT] , which met only in emergencies [SITUATION] , and the colonial defence committee [HUMAN GROUP] [HUMAN GROUP] . esher [PERSON] had recommended the setting up of an army council [HUMAN GROUP] and the abolition [QUALITY] of the post [UNKNOWN] of commander-in-chief , but few of his recommendations [EVENT] had been implemented before the change [UNKNOWN] of government [GOVERNMENT] in december [PERIOD] 1905 . haldane [PERSON] 's reforms [AMOUNT] also created the territorial force [FORCE] of 14 divisions [PROCESS] ( the original plan [PLAN] was for 28 ) and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades [USE] at home [PLACE] , the officer [PERSON] training [UNKNOWN] corps [GROUP] and the special reserve [ABSTRACT ENTITY] . in all the reforms [AMOUNT] , haldane [PERSON] worked closely at the war office [PLACE] with major-general haig [PERSON] . by coincidence [EVENT] , both men [PERSON] had been born in charlotte square [PLACE] , in edinburgh [INSTITUTION] . j. a . spender [PERSON] later wrote of how haldane [PERSON] got the best work [ACTIVITY] out [WORD] of an able but verbally-incoherent soldier [UNKNOWN] ( thought [UNKNOWN] to refer to haig [PERSON] ) by not scoring verbal points [UNKNOWN] off him , as many politicians [PERSON] would have done . usually critical , rosebery [PERSON] remarked on haldane [PERSON] 's interest [ACT] in philosophy [GROUP] , declaring : " i have read his secret memorandum [NUMBER] , and that was enough " . in 1907 and 1908 , haldane [PERSON] passed far-reaching reforms [AMOUNT] to army management [ARRANGEMENT] . he was accredited as an efficient bureaucratic leader [PERSON] , notably founding [NUMBER] the territorial army [HUMAN GROUP] in a second memorandum [NUMBER] . his reforms [AMOUNT] re-oriented british [UNKNOWN] military policy [RULE] , revamped army [HUMAN GROUP] organization [INSTITUTION] along the lines [PERSON] of the german general staff [GOVERNMENT] , upgraded the training [UNKNOWN] of the auxiliary forces [UNKNOWN] , and created an efficient and economically run service [INSTITUTION] . those reforms [AMOUNT] enabled britain [PLACE] to send some 120,000 men [PERSON] to france [PLACE] in fifteen days [PERIOD] in august [PERIOD] 1914 . haldane [PERSON] was also instrumental in the creation [EVENT] the advisory committee [HUMAN GROUP] for aeronautics [RULE] in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry [INSTITUTION] in the united kingdom [PLACE] with a sound body [BODY] of science [STUDY] on which to base the development [SUBSTANCE] of aircraft [VEHICLE] for the next seventy years [PERIOD] ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . philosopher-politician throughout his long career [STATE] and association [INSTITUTION] with the modernisers [UNKNOWN] or ' limps ' haldane [PERSON] used his considerable intellect [FORM] to great advantage [CONDITION] against economy [STUDY] . a radical liberal [PERSON] , haldane [PERSON] was also , according to historian martin [PERSON] pugh , one of the " best supporters [PERSON] " of david lloyd george [PERSON] 's " people [HUMAN GROUP] 's budget [DOCUMENT PART] . " during the constitutional [ABSTRACT ENTITY] and budget crisis [EVENT] of 1909-11 , haldane [PERSON] advised his friend [PERSON] and prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] , asquith [PERSON] on the legal niceties [ABSTRACT ENTITY] of his stance [PROPERTY] towards the monarch [PERSON] , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches [SPEECH] from churchill [PERSON] and lloyd george [PERSON] . stumbling from illness [ILLNESS] to illness [ILLNESS] , haldane [PERSON] 's own bad health [PROPERTY] was similar to king edward [PERSON] 's declining fortunes [STATE] . the viscount haldane [PERSON] , lord chancellor [PERSON] , 1912 two elections [PROCESS] ensued , one in january [PERIOD] and another in december [PERIOD] 1910 , before in 1911 he was raised to the peerage [COLLECTION] as viscount haldane [PERSON] , of cloan [UNKNOWN] in the county [PLACE] of perth [PLACE] . he became leader [PERSON] in the lords [PERSON] , responsible for the passage [PERSON] of the parliament act [ACT] . on lord loreburn [PERSON] 's retirement [ACT] in june [PERIOD] 1912 , haldane [PERSON] succeeded him as lord chancellor [PERSON] , making a self-deprecating speech [SPEECH] as to his abilities [UNKNOWN] as a legal expert [PERSON] . haldane mission [PERSON] of 1912 to berlin main article [ARTICLE] [ARTICLE] : haldane mission [PERSON] 1912 saw the unsuccessful attempt [ACTION] of the haldane mission [PERSON] , an effort [ACTION] to quell the friction [FORCE] between britain [PLACE] and germany [PLACE] arising because of their escalating naval arms race [RACE] . the mission [PERSON] was a failure [ABSTRACT ENTITY] because the germans [UNKNOWN] would agree to slow the tempo [ACT] of its warship construction [ABSTRACT ENTITY] only if britain [PLACE] promised to remain neutral if germany [PLACE] should become engaged in a war [EVENT] where " germany [PLACE] could not be said to be the aggressor [PERSON] . " above all berlin [PLACE] wanted britain [PLACE] to remain neutral in a war [EVENT] between germany [PLACE] and france [PLACE] . that carried an unacceptable risk [STATEMENT] encouraging germany [PLACE] to go to war [EVENT] with france [PLACE] or russia [PLACE] and taking control [GROUP] of the continent [VALUE] . first world [PLACE] war [EVENT] in march [PERIOD] 1914 haldane [PERSON] 's successor [NUMBER] at the war office [PLACE] , jack seely [PERSON] , resigned following the curragh incident [EVENT] . rather than appoint a successor [NUMBER] , asquith [PERSON] decided to take over responsibility [RESPONSIBILITY] for the war office [PLACE] directly himself . asquith [PERSON] relied heavily on haldane [PERSON] as the previous war secretary [PERSON] and empowered him to carry out [WORD] tasks [UNKNOWN] at the war office [PLACE] on his behalf [PERSON] . as the situation [SITUATION] in europe [PLACE] worsened , asquith [PERSON] kept haldane [PERSON] abreast of developments [SUBSTANCE] with sir edward grey [PERSON] at the foreign office [PLACE] . haldane [PERSON] was one of the first members [PERSON] of the cabinet [ACT] to recognise that war [EVENT] with germany [PLACE] was inevitable and persuaded asquith [PERSON] to mobilise by assembly of the army council [HUMAN GROUP] on 3 august [PERIOD] . with war imminent [UNKNOWN] , asquith [PERSON] was happy for haldane [PERSON] to continue at the war office [PLACE] formally as secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] , but haldane [PERSON] persuaded him to appoint field marshal kitchener [PERSON] . following the outbreak [OCCURRENCE] of the first world [PLACE] war [EVENT] haldane [PERSON] was falsely accused of pro-german sympathies [PERSON] , in july [PERIOD] 1914 , for hosting albert ballin [PERSON] , a german shipping magnate [PERSON] and unofficial mediator [PERSON] between germany [PLACE] and britain [PLACE] . the accusations [AMOUNT] were widely believed and were even echoed in a popular music hall song [ARTWORK] ( " all dressed up and nowhere to go " ) in the revue [FORM] " mr manhattan [PLACE] " . he was harried in particular by beaverbrook [PERSON] 's daily express [IMAGE] , which gave great publicity [PERSON] to the claim [AMOUNT] by professor onkel [UNKNOWN] of heidelberg [PLACE] that he had said " germany [PLACE] was his spiritual [PERSON] home [PLACE] " . he had in fact [UNKNOWN] said that about professor hermann lotze [PERSON] 's classroom [ROOM] at göttingen [INSTITUTION] at a dinner party [FORCE] given by mrs humphry ward [PERSON] in april [PERIOD] 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors [UNKNOWN] during his mission [PERSON] . in 1915 asquith [PERSON] ranked his cabinet [ACT] , putting haldane [PERSON] only sixth of the inner cabinet members [PERSON] . dismissal [PERSON] from office [PLACE] following the shell crisis [EVENT] and the resignation [ACT] of lord fisher [PLACE] , in may [PERIOD] 1915 the liberals [PERSON] were obliged to form a coalition government [GOVERNMENT] with the conservatives [UNKNOWN] who , under the leadership [PERSON] of bonar law [PERSON] , insisted on the removal [PROCESS] of winston churchill [PERSON] as first lord [PERSON] of the admiralty [FORCE] and the dismissal [PERSON] of haldane [PERSON] . haldane [PERSON] 's removal [PROCESS] was on account [PERMISSION] of the popularity [ACT] of the press [INSTITUTION] 's campaign [OCCURRENCE] relating to haldane [PERSON] 's alleged pro-german sympathies [PERSON] . neither the former prime minister arthur balfour [PERSON] [PERSON] , haldane [PERSON] 's closest friend [PERSON] amongst the conservatives [UNKNOWN] , nor asquith [PERSON] , the liberal [PERSON] prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] of the day [PERIOD] and haldane [PERSON] 's closest political ally and friend [PERSON] for over 30 years [PERIOD] , did anything [ANYTHING] to resist bonar law [PERSON] 's demands [EVENT] . roy jenkins [PERSON] in his biography [SEQUENCE] of asquith [PERSON] describes the charges [AMOUNT] as " absolute nonsense [PURPOSE] " and max egremont [UNKNOWN] describes balfour [PERSON] as " knowing the injustice [POWER] behind the charges [AMOUNT] " and " being privately indignant " . to the detriment [INJURY] of their relationship [RELATIONSHIP] , asquith [PERSON] gave no personal expression [UNKNOWN] to haldane [PERSON] . jenkins [PERSON] describes the omission [INSTANCE] as " the most uncharacteristic fault [QUANTITY] of asquith [PERSON] 's whole career [STATE] " attributing it to asquith [PERSON] suffering the " indescribable blow [INSTANCE] " of the surprise announcement [EVENT] of the engagement [STATE] of the woman [PERSON] he loved , venetia stanley [PERSON] , to one of his government ministers [PERSON] , edwin montagu [PERSON] . following his departure [ACT] from the government haldane [PERSON] went to the front [PLACE] to meet his old friend general haig [PERSON] , and his cousin [PERSON] , general aylmer haldane [PERSON] , but he was exhausted on being ejected from cabinet [ACT] . having been awarded the order [ACT] of merit [STATEMENT] in 1915 , in the personal gift [PERSON] of george v [PERSON] , he wrote a memorandum [NUMBER] of events [UNKNOWN] , 1906-15 , to defend his reputation [REPUTATION] . it was published in april [PERIOD] 1916 . haldane [PERSON] thought [UNKNOWN] lloyd george [PERSON] 's new government [GOVERNMENT] , formed in december [PERIOD] 1916 , " very low class [UNKNOWN] " . haldane [PERSON] told lord buckmaster [PERSON] at this time [PERIOD] , " asquith [PERSON] is a first-class head [HEAD] of a deliberative council [HUMAN GROUP] . he is versed in precedents [EVENT] , acts [ACT] on principle [PERSON] , and knows how and when to compromise [AGREEMENT] . lloyd george [PERSON] knows nothing [PERSON] for precedents [EVENT] and cares [PERSON] for no principles [NATURE] , but he has fire [FIRE] in his belly [UNKNOWN] and that is what we want . " as the war [EVENT] progressed haldane [PERSON] moved increasingly close to the labour party [FORCE] , but he was held back by his ties [PERSON] to the liberal party [FORCE] and to asquith [PERSON] . when the irish war [EVENT] of independence [QUALITY] broke out [WORD] in 1919 , haldane [PERSON] was one of the first british [UNKNOWN] politicians [PERSON] to argue that the solution [OCCURRENCE] lay in compromise [AGREEMENT] rather than force [FORCE] . contribution [EVENT] to canadian [UNKNOWN] constitutional [ABSTRACT ENTITY] law as lord chancellor [PERSON] [PERSON] , haldane [PERSON] was a member [PERSON] of the judicial committee [HUMAN GROUP] of the privy council [HUMAN GROUP] , at that time [PERIOD] the court [EVENT] of last resort [PLACE] for the empire [STATE] . he retained the position [POSITION] even when he was no longer chancellor [PERSON] . he sat on several cases [STUDY] from canada [PLACE] dealing with the division [PROCESS] of powers [POWER] between the federal and provincial governments [GOVERNMENT] under the canadian constitution [ACT] , particularly the interplay [RELATIONSHIP] between sections [ACT] 91 and 92 of the british north america act [ACT] 1867 . he gave the decision [DECISION] for the judicial committee [HUMAN GROUP] in several of those cases [STUDY] , and showed a marked tendency [TENDENCY] to favour the provincial powers [POWER] at the expense [ACT] of the federal government [GOVERNMENT] . for instance [INSTANCE] , in the case [STUDY] of in re the board [BODY] of commerce act [ACT] , 1919 , and the combines [UNKNOWN] and fair prices [AMOUNT] act [ACT] , he gave the decision [DECISION] striking down federal legislation [PERSON] which attempted to regulate the economy [STUDY] , challenging the legality [PROPERTY] of the canadian [UNKNOWN] legislature [BODY] . in doing so , he gave very restrictive readings [PROPERTY] to both the " peace [STATE] , order [ACT] and good government [GOVERNMENT] " power [POWER] of the federal government [GOVERNMENT] , as well as the federal criminal law power [POWER] . similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider [PERSON] , lord haldane [PERSON] struck down a federal statute [PERSON] attempting to regulate industrial disputes [DISPUTE] , holding that it was not within federal authority [STATUS] under either the peace [STATE] , order [ACT] and good government power [POWER] , nor the federal trade [PROCESS] and commerce power [POWER] . he went so far as to suggest that the trade [PROCESS] and commerce power [POWER] was simply an ancillary federal power [POWER] , which could not authorise legislation [PERSON] in its own right [UNKNOWN] . the effects [EFFECT] of some of these decisions [DECISION] have subsequently been modified by later decisions [DECISION] of the judicial committee [HUMAN GROUP] and the supreme court [EVENT] of canada [PLACE] , but they have had the long-term effect [EFFECT] of recognising substantial provincial powers [POWER] . haldane [PERSON] 's approach [ACT] to the division [PROCESS] of powers [POWER] was heavily criticised by some academics [EVENT] and lawyers [PERSON] in canada [PLACE] , such as f. r. scott [PERSON] and chief justice bora laskin [PERSON] , as unduly favouring the provinces [ENTITY] over the federal government [GOVERNMENT] and depriving it of the powers [POWER] needed to deal [SITUATION] with modern economic issues [ACTION] . more recently , one major study [STUDY] has characterised him as " the wicked stepfather [PERSON] " of the canadian constitution [ACT] . influence [ELEMENT] on education [PROCESS] in 1895 , haldane [PERSON] helped the webbs [UNKNOWN] found the london school [INSTITUTION] of economics [STUDY] . a fundamental believer [PERSON] in the power [POWER] of improving education [PROCESS] , he prepared the london university [INSTITUTION] act [ACT] 1898 . the philosophy [GROUP] of ' national efficiency [QUALITY] ' was central feature [PERSON] of the hegelian [UNKNOWN] complex [STRUCTURE] , and the ideas [ACT] of schopenhauer [PERSON] , he had learnt on the continent [VALUE] , that accentuated freedom [PERSON] and decentralisation [UNKNOWN] from an historicist [PERSON] 's perspective [SOUND] . his moral centrism [CONCEPT] sought to unify the new liberalism [BODY] , as he published it in contemporary review [ACT] . from a pan-european perspective [SOUND] he analysed the german character [EVENT] and economic advances [EVENT] towards militarism [BODY] . he was largely responsible for the cross-party support [ACT] for balfour [PERSON] 's education act [ACT] 1902 . he told rosebery [PERSON] " a sense [SOUND] of nation [PERSON] is working towards ...a great centre party [FORCE] . " he was also involved in the founding [NUMBER] of imperial college [INSTITUTION] in 1907 and in his honour [UNKNOWN] the university [INSTITUTION] contained the haldane recreational library [PLACE] , which now forms part of the main library collection [COLLECTION] . haldane [PERSON] was a member [PERSON] of the coefficients [UNKNOWN] dining [EVENT] club [INSTITUTION] of social reformers [PERSON] set [SET] up in 1902 by the fabian campaigners sidney and beatrice webb [PERSON] . he wrote a biography [SEQUENCE] of adam smith [PERSON] , extolling the virtues [PERSON] of free trade [PROCESS] . unlike joseph chamberlain [PERSON] he thought [UNKNOWN] there was no strong connection [SET] between fiscal and imperial unity [DOCUMENT PART] . he opposed any attempt [ACTION] to protection [ACT] of british [UNKNOWN] trade [PROCESS] . in 1904 , he was president [PERSON] of the edinburgh sir walter [PERSON] scott club [INSTITUTION] and gave the toast [EVENT] to sir walter [PERSON] at the club [INSTITUTION] 's annual dinner [FOOD] , addressing " the dedicated life [EVENT] " to a group [GROUP] of students [PERSON] on 10 january [PERIOD] 1907 . he also served as second [EVENT] chancellor [PERSON] of the university [INSTITUTION] of bristol [INSTITUTION] where he made an important address [UNKNOWN] titled " the civic university [INSTITUTION] " outlining his educational philosophy [GROUP] in 1911 . at the end [UNKNOWN] of his life lord haldane [PERSON] [PERSON] was elected chancellor [PERSON] of the university [INSTITUTION] of st andrews [INSTITUTION] in june [PERIOD] 1928 . perhaps his greatest speech [SPEECH] on education [PROCESS] was made in house [PLACE] of lords [PERSON] on 12 july [PERIOD] 1916 , at the height [QUALITY] of the terrible slaughter [EVENT] on the western front [PLACE] . writings haldane [PERSON] co-translated the first english edition [PERSON] of schopenhauer [PERSON] 's the world [PLACE] as will [UNKNOWN] and representation [ACT] , published between 1883 and 1886 . he wrote several philosophical works [UNKNOWN] , the best known of which is the reign [PLACE] of relativity [ACT] ( 1921 ) , which dealt with the philosophical implications [PERSON] of the theory [COGNITIVE STATE] of relativity [ACT] . haldane [PERSON] published " the pathway [PERSON] to reality [PERSON] " , based on the gifford lectures [PERSON] which he had delivered at the university [INSTITUTION] of st andrews [INSTITUTION] . some of his public addresses [UNKNOWN] have also been published , including the future [VALUE] of democracy [QUALITY] ( 1918 ) . * the pathway [PERSON] to reality [PERSON] . london [PLACE] : john murray [PERSON] . 1903 . * the pathway [PERSON] to reality [PERSON] : stage [STAGE] the second [EVENT] . new york [PLACE] : e. p. dutton [PERSON] and co. 1904 . army reform [AMOUNT] and other addresses [UNKNOWN] ( 1907 ) the conduct [ACT] of life [EVENT] , and other addresses [UNKNOWN] . london [PLACE] . 1914 . before the war. 1920 . the reign [PLACE] of relativity [ACT] . toronto : macmillan [PERSON] . 1921 . the philosophy [GROUP] of humanism [ACTION] and of other subjects [EVENT] . toronto : macmillan [PERSON] . 1922 . human experience [COGNITIVE STATE] : a study [STUDY] of its structure [STRUCTURE] . e.p. dutton [PERSON] . 1926 . papers [PERSON] and photographs [PICTURE] of richard burdon haldane [PERSON] , 1st viscount haldane [PERSON] , and of the haldane family [HUMAN GROUP] . , national library [PLACE] of scotland an autobiography [PLACE] . london [PLACE] : hodder [PERSON] and stoughton [PERSON] . 1929 . oclc [UNKNOWN] 771158008 . ol 19765733w. personal life [EVENT] portrait by philip de lászló [PERSON] , 1928 haldane [PERSON] had health problems [EVENT] all his life [EVENT] . he suffered from bad rheumatism [CONDITION] , a stigmata [UNKNOWN] in the eye [PERSON] and in 1909 , he had to take bed rest [STATE] when going blind from iritis [UNKNOWN] . a lifelong walker [PERSON] and cigar smoker [PERSON] , he was diagnosed diabetic . " the latter [UNKNOWN] is a large , fat man [PERSON] " was haig [PERSON] 's initial impression [INSTANCE] of a dignified but portly demeanour . yet , added haig [PERSON] , " one seems to like the man [PERSON] at once . " having worked on the army regulations [UNKNOWN] of 1909 , haig [PERSON] applauded " a most clear headed and practical man--very ready to listen and weigh carefully all that is said to him . " osbert sitwell [PERSON] described him as " entering a room [ROOM] with the air [AIR] of a whole procession [STATE] " . leo amery [PERSON] said he looked like " the old-fashioned family butler [PERSON] " . another imperialist [PERSON] , winston churchill [PERSON] also respected haldane [PERSON] , although they were from differing social backgrounds [INFORMATION] . on promoting churchill [PERSON] to first lord [PERSON] of the admiralty [FORCE] , asquith [PERSON] advised him to seek haldane [PERSON] 's advice [DECISION] at a meeting [ACTIVITY] held at archerfield [UNKNOWN] , north berwick [PLACE] . from 1907 to 1908 , he was president [PERSON] of the aristotelian society [INSTITUTION] . haldane [PERSON] remained a lifelong bachelor [PERSON] after his fiancée [UNKNOWN] , miss valentine ferguson [PERSON] , broke off their engagement [STATE] . he died suddenly of heart disease [DISEASE] at his home [PLACE] in auchterarder [UNKNOWN] , scotland [PLACE] , on 19 august [PERIOD] 1928 , aged 72 . the viscountcy [UNKNOWN] became extinct on his death [EVENT] . later years [PERIOD] in december [PERIOD] 1918 , lloyd george [PERSON] appointed haldane chairman [PERSON] of ' the machinery [GROUP] of government [GOVERNMENT] ' committee [HUMAN GROUP] . however , the armistice [EVENT] had taken all impetus out [WORD] of the reform agenda [ACTION] . this work [ACTIVITY] led to the idea [ACT] that decisions [DECISION] about what to spend research [EVENT] funds on should be made by researchers [PERSON] rather than politicians [PERSON] being named the haldane principle [PERSON] . at the time [PERIOD] of the paisley by-election of january [PERIOD] 1920 haldane [PERSON] was in the process [PROCESS] of shifting his sympathies [PERSON] from liberal [PERSON] to labour [PERSON] , and was wrongly thought [UNKNOWN] to have endorsed labour [PERSON] ( earning a rebuke [ACT] from margot asquith [PERSON] , whom haldane [PERSON] thought [UNKNOWN] " tiresome [UNKNOWN] because she is ignorant " , to his aged mother [PERSON] ) . in fact [UNKNOWN] he favoured asquith [PERSON] 's election [PROCESS] on a personal level [DOCUMENT] . being a fluent [PERSON] german speaker [PROCESS] , ascetic philosopher [PERSON] and atheist [PERSON] , he played host [INSTITUTION] to albert einstein [PERSON] , when he visited london [PLACE] in 1921 . as president [PERSON] of the institute [INSTITUTION] of public administration [ARRANGEMENT] , he was a leading intellectual [PERSON] on the philosophy [GROUP] of governance [PROCESS] . " the reign [PLACE] of relativity [ACT] " combined haldane [PERSON] 's love [PERSON] of all things [ACTIVITY] german expressed by goethe [PLACE] and his works [UNKNOWN] , with the hegelian [UNKNOWN] military-industrial complex [STRUCTURE] . haldane [PERSON] admired the fact [UNKNOWN] that germans [UNKNOWN] were " trained to obey " . hegel [PERSON] 's aristocratic desire [EVENT] for law [PERSON] and order [ACT] and defence [PERSON] of property [PROPERTY] against revolution [STUDY] had a mathematical symmetry [SIMILARITY] . hegel [PERSON] was a purist [PERSON] : his work [ACTIVITY] attempted to keep science [STUDY] and philosophy [GROUP] apart . the rising tide [TENDENCY] of new liberalism [BODY] and moral realism [INSTANCE] was for haldane [PERSON] , hegel [PERSON] 's philological precept [RULE] to improve behaviour [UNKNOWN] , using the empiricism [PERSON] of scientific data [ABSTRACT ENTITY] as a proof [FORCE] . haldane [PERSON] refused to join the platform [PLACE] for asquith [PERSON] 's speech [SPEECH] at westminster central hall [PLACE] in january [PERIOD] 1922 . he stated that his main interest [ACT] in public life [EVENT] was now education reform [AMOUNT] and that the cause [CAUSE] was not best served by endorsing the liberal party [FORCE] . it was not until the general election [PROCESS] of 1923 that haldane [PERSON] formally sided with labour [PERSON] , and made several speeches [SPEECH] on behalf [PERSON] of labour candidates [AMOUNT] . when the labour government [GOVERNMENT] was formed by ramsay macdonald [PERSON] in early 1924 , haldane [PERSON] served once again as lord chancellor [PERSON] . he was also joint leader [PERSON] of the labour peers [PERSON] with lord parmoor [PERSON] . haldane [PERSON] was a vital member [PERSON] of the cabinet [ACT] as he was one of only three members [PERSON] who had sat in a cabinet [ACT] before . haldane [PERSON] was responsible for drafting the london university [INSTITUTION] act [ACT] 1926 , purchasing properties [PROPERTY] in euston [PERSON] . he made some famous speeches [SPEECH] at toynbee hall [PLACE] for the annual american seminar [GROUP] . arms caption [CONDITION] : coat [ABSTRACT ENTITY] of arms [LANGUAGE] of richard haldane [PERSON] , 1st viscount haldane [PERSON] crest an eagle [PERSON] 's head [HEAD] erased or . escutcheon quarterly [ACTION] 1st & 4th argent [PERSON] a saltire [UNKNOWN] engrailed sable [PERSON] ( haldane [PERSON] ) ; 2nd argent [PERSON] a saltire [UNKNOWN] between four roses gules [PERSON] ( lennox [PERSON] ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable [PERSON] & argent [PERSON] ( menteith [UNKNOWN] ) ; in the centre [UNKNOWN] of the quarters [EVENT] a crescent sable [PERSON] , all within a bordure [UNKNOWN] or . motto suffer orders order [ACT] of the thistle order [ACT] of merit [STATEMENT] ( not pictured ) legacy in november [PERIOD] 1923 lord birkenhead [PLACE] , the conservative politician [PERSON] , praised haldane [PERSON] 's contribution [EVENT] to britain [PLACE] 's preparedness [STATE] for the first world [PLACE] war [EVENT] : in the welter [FORCE] of sentimentality [ACT] , amid [PERSON] which great britain [PLACE] might easily have mouldered into ruin [CONDITION] , my valued colleague [PERSON] , lord haldane [PERSON] , presented a figure [FIGURE] alike interesting , individual , and arresting . in speech [SPEECH] fluent [PERSON] and even infinite he yielded to no living idealist [PERSON] in the easy coinage [ABSTRACT ENTITY] of sentimental phraseology [STUDY] . here , indeed , he was a match [FORM] for those who distributed the chloroform [COMPOUND] of berlin [PLACE] . do we not remember , for instance [INSTANCE] , that germany [PLACE] was his spiritual [PERSON] home [PLACE] ? but he none the less prepared himself , and the empire [STATE] , to talk when the time [PERIOD] came with his spiritual [PERSON] friends [FUNCTION] in language [LANGUAGE] not in the least spiritual [PERSON] . he devised the territorial army [HUMAN GROUP] , which was capable of becoming the easy nucleus [POSITION] of national conscription [UNIT] , and which unquestionably ought to have been used for that purpose [PURPOSE] at the outbreak [OCCURRENCE] of war [EVENT] . he created the imperial general staff [PLACE] . he founded the officers [PERSON] ' training [UNKNOWN] corps [GROUP] . — lord birkenhead [PLACE] ( n.d. ) , idealism [FORM] in international politics [ACT] . a rectorial address [UNKNOWN] , delivered on november [PERIOD] 23rd ( pdf [UNKNOWN] ) , peterborough : the peterborough press [INSTITUTION] , p. 9 on haldane [PERSON] 's death [EVENT] the times [UNKNOWN] described him as " one of the most powerful , subtle and encyclopaedic intellects [FORM] ever devoted to the public service [INSTITUTION] of his country [PLACE] " . the military historian correlli barnett [PERSON] claimed that haldane [PERSON] had " all-round personal talents [EVENT] far exceeding those of his predecessors [GROUP] " as secretary [PERSON] of state [STATE] for war [EVENT] and that he was " a man [PERSON] of first-class intellect [FORM] and wide education [PROCESS] " . walter reid [PERSON] believed haldane [PERSON] to be the greatest of the secretaries [EVENT] for war [EVENT] . decided cases [STUDY] * heilbut , symons [PERSON] & co v buckleton ukhl [UNKNOWN] 2 , no damages [EVENT] for non-fraudulent misrepresentation [INSTANCE] , reversed by hedley byrne [PERSON] * british westinghouse electric [AMOUNT] and manufacturing co v underground electric railway [SYSTEM] co of london ac [PLACE] 673 , 689 , on mitigation [ACT] * kreglinger v new patagonia meat [MEAT] & cold storage co ltd ukhl [UNKNOWN] 1 , no clog [CONCEPT] on equity [PROPERTY] of redemption [ACT] * sinclair v brougham ac [PERSON] 398 , priority [PERSON] for depositors [PERSON] over shareholders [PERSON] * nocton v lord ashburton ac [PERSON] 932 , fiduciary duty [QUALITY] of giving non-negligent advice [DECISION] * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge [PERSON] & co ltd ukhl [UNKNOWN] 1 , no right [UNKNOWN] to enforce resale price maintenance [PERSON] without a contract [PERSON] * lennard [PERSON] 's carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac [PERSON] 705 , directors [INSTITUTION] are presumed to be the controlling minds [FIGURE] of the company [INSTITUTION] * cook v deeks ukpc [PERSON] 10 , no conflicts [EVENT] of interest [ACT] for company [INSTITUTION] directors [INSTITUTION] * jones v jones 2 ac 487 * great west saddlery company [INSTITUTION] limited and others v [UNKNOWN] the king ukpc [PERSON] 27 * macedo v stroud ac [PERSON] 330 , property transfer [UNKNOWN] * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac [PERSON] 709 , interference [STATE] with contractual relations [RELATION] * lake v simmons ac 487 |
| Id | Form | Freq | Tag | Context | Error |
| 1 | haldane | 80 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 2 | asquith | 24 | PERSON | asquith preceded by the earl loreburn succeeded by the lord buckmaster | |
| 3 | war | 17 | EVENT | in office 22 january 1924 - 3 november 1924 prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the marquess curzon of kedleston succeeded by the marquess curzon of kedleston secretary of state for war | |
| 4 | germany | 11 | PLACE | that led to his role in seeking detente with germany in 1912 in the haldane mission . | |
| 5 | philosophy | 9 | GROUP | apart from his legal and political careers , haldane was an influential writer on philosophy , in recognition of which he was elected a fellow of the british academy in 1914 . | |
| 6 | rosebery | 8 | PERSON | haldane remained an ally of asquith and grey in the liberal imperialist wing of the party , followers of lord rosebery rather than of sir william harcourt . | |
| 7 | government | 8 | GOVERNMENT | after the conservative government of arthur balfour fell in december 1905 there was some speculation that asquith and his allies haldane and grey would refuse to serve unless henry campbell-bannerman accepted a peerage , which would have left asquith as the real leader in the house of commons . | |
| 8 | secretary | 7 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 3 november 1924 prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the marquess curzon of kedleston succeeded by the marquess curzon of kedleston secretary of state for war | |
| 9 | reforms | 7 | AMOUNT | he was secretary of state for war between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " haldane reforms " of the british army were implemented . | |
| 10 | education | 7 | PROCESS | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 11 | state | 7 | STATE | in office 22 january 1924 - 3 november 1924 prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the marquess curzon of kedleston succeeded by the marquess curzon of kedleston secretary of state for war | |
| 12 | london | 6 | PLACE | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 13 | university | 6 | INSTITUTION | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 14 | grey | 6 | PERSON | they were founders of the albert grey committee , named after albert grey , regularly discussing burning social issues , such as education . | |
| 15 | britain | 6 | PLACE | by 1914 britain spent 3.4 % of national income on defence , little more in absolute terms than austria-hungary 's 6.1 % . | |
| 16 | lord chancellor | 6 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 17 | december | 6 | PERIOD | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 18 | cabinet | 6 | ACT | before haldane , there was only the defence committee of the cabinet , which met only in emergencies , and the colonial defence committee . | |
| 19 | house | 6 | PLACE | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 20 | august | 6 | PERIOD | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 21 | war office | 5 | PLACE | in all the reforms , haldane worked closely at the war office with major-general haig . | |
| 22 | party | 5 | FORCE | auchterarder , scotland political party liberal ( 1879-1923 ) labour ( 1923-1928 ) | |
| 23 | lords | 5 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 24 | powers | 5 | POWER | he sat on several cases from canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the canadian constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the british north america act 1867 . | |
| 25 | time | 5 | PERIOD | he was secretary of state for war between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " haldane reforms " of the british army were implemented . | |
| 26 | liberals | 5 | PERSON | membership was restricted to liberals under the age of forty . | |
| 27 | leader | 5 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 28 | cases | 5 | STUDY | haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the privy council and house of lords . | |
| 29 | sympathies | 4 | PERSON | raised to the peerage as viscount haldane in 1911 , he was lord chancellor between 1912 and 1915 , when he was forced to resign because of allegations of german sympathies . | |
| 30 | men | 4 | PERSON | scottish lodge where the men met ) collapsed when asquith agreed to serve as chancellor of the exchequer under campbell-bannerman . | |
| 31 | march | 4 | PERIOD | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 32 | liberal | 4 | PERSON | auchterarder , scotland political party liberal ( 1879-1923 ) labour ( 1923-1928 ) | |
| 33 | haig | 4 | PERSON | in all the reforms , haldane worked closely at the war office with major-general haig . | |
| 34 | trade | 4 | PROCESS | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 35 | labour | 4 | PERSON | auchterarder , scotland political party liberal ( 1879-1923 ) labour ( 1923-1928 ) | |
| 36 | order | 4 | ACT | having been awarded the order of merit in 1915 , in the personal gift of george v , he wrote a memorandum of events , 1906-15 , to defend his reputation . | |
| 37 | home | 4 | PLACE | on 13 december 1905 , haldane was appointed secretary of state for war , but he may have been offered the jobs of attorney-general and home secretary . ( grey became foreign secretary ) . | |
| 38 | life | 4 | EVENT | in 1904 , he was president of the edinburgh sir walter scott club and gave the toast to sir walter at the club 's annual dinner , addressing " the dedicated life " to a group of students on 10 january 1907 . | |
| 39 | king | 4 | PERSON | on 11 august 1902 , haldane was admitted to the privy council , following an announcement of the king 's intention to make the appointment in the 1902 coronation honours list , published in june that year . | |
| 40 | years | 4 | PERIOD | in 1900 , during the boer war , army expenditure was £86.8m , by 1910 ( a low point , after four years of cuts under the liberals ) it had dropped to £27.6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £29.4m . | |
| 41 | relativity | 4 | ACT | 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 . | |
| 42 | chancellor | 4 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 43 | hegel | 4 | PERSON | during his stay at göttingen he expanded an interest in the german philosophers , schopenhauer and hegel . | |
| 44 | lloyd george | 4 | PERSON | a radical liberal , haldane was also , according to historian martin pugh , one of the " best supporters " of david lloyd george 's " people 's budget . " | |
| 45 | interest | 4 | ACT | during his stay at göttingen he expanded an interest in the german philosophers , schopenhauer and hegel . | |
| 46 | viscount haldane | 4 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 47 | edinburgh | 4 | INSTITUTION | december 1885 - 27 march 1911 preceded by hugo charteris succeeded by john hope personal details born ( 1856-07-30) 30 july 1856 edinburgh , scotland died 19 | |
| 48 | army | 4 | HUMAN GROUP | he was secretary of state for war between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " haldane reforms " of the british army were implemented . | |
| 49 | member | 4 | PERSON | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 50 | haldane mission | 4 | PERSON | that led to his role in seeking detente with germany in 1912 in the haldane mission . | |
| 51 | friend | 4 | PERSON | in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson , sister of his liberal party friend , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel betsy in 1892 . | |
| 52 | mission | 3 | PERSON | that led to his role in seeking detente with germany in 1912 in the haldane mission . | |
| 53 | territorial army | 3 | HUMAN GROUP | as secretary of state of war , he was instrumental in founding mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army , the british expeditionary force , and the royal air force . | |
| 54 | berlin | 3 | PLACE | the mission was a failure and tensions with berlin forced london to work more closely with paris . | |
| 55 | october | 3 | PERIOD | in october 1888 , " the liberal creed " was published summarising his belief in the direction of new liberalism . | |
| 56 | july | 3 | PERIOD | december 1885 - 27 march 1911 preceded by hugo charteris succeeded by john hope personal details born ( 1856-07-30) 30 july 1856 edinburgh , scotland died 19 | |
| 57 | friends | 3 | FUNCTION | amongst his early friends was edmund gosse , the librarian of the house of lords library . | |
| 58 | pathway | 3 | PERSON | haldane published " the pathway to reality " , based on the gifford lectures which he had delivered at the university of st andrews . | |
| 59 | balfour | 3 | PERSON | balfour 's administration leant on haldane 's philosophy for educational reforms . | |
| 60 | germans | 3 | UNKNOWN | haldane was persuaded by fellow liberal imperialist edward grey to begin planning for a continental war in support of the french against the germans . | |
| 61 | engagement | 3 | STATE | in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson , sister of his liberal party friend , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel betsy in 1892 . | |
| 62 | canada | 3 | PLACE | he sat on several cases from canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the canadian constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the british north america act 1867 . | |
| 63 | politicians | 3 | PERSON | j. a . spender later wrote of how haldane got the best work out of an able but verbally-incoherent soldier ( thought to refer to haig ) by not scoring verbal points off him , as many politicians would have done . | |
| 64 | new liberalism | 3 | PLACE | in october 1888 , " the liberal creed " was published summarising his belief in the direction of new liberalism . | |
| 65 | president | 3 | PERSON | in 1904 , he was president of the edinburgh sir walter scott club and gave the toast to sir walter at the club 's annual dinner , addressing " the dedicated life " to a group of students on 10 january 1907 . | |
| 66 | liberal party | 3 | FORCE | in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson , sister of his liberal party friend , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel betsy in 1892 . | |
| 67 | judicial committee | 3 | HUMAN GROUP | contribution to canadian constitutional law as lord chancellor , haldane was a member of the judicial committee of the privy council , at that time the court of last resort for the empire . | |
| 68 | election | 3 | PROCESS | a cousin , the whig politician lord camperdown encouraged the young barrister into standing as a liberal at the general election of 1880 . | |
| 69 | addresses | 3 | UNKNOWN | some of his public addresses have also been published , including | |
| 70 | reign | 3 | PLACE | 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 . | |
| 71 | schopenhauer | 3 | PERSON | during his stay at göttingen he expanded an interest in the german philosophers , schopenhauer and hegel . | |
| 72 | scotland | 3 | PLACE | december 1885 - 27 march 1911 preceded by hugo charteris succeeded by john hope personal details born ( 1856-07-30) 30 july 1856 edinburgh , scotland died 19 | |
| 73 | fact | 3 | UNKNOWN | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 74 | reality | 3 | PERSON | haldane published " the pathway to reality " , based on the gifford lectures which he had delivered at the university of st andrews . | |
| 75 | speech | 3 | SPEECH | on lord loreburn 's retirement in june 1912 , haldane succeeded him as lord chancellor , making a self-deprecating speech as to his abilities as a legal expert . | |
| 76 | place | 3 | PLACE | he had refused a place at balliol , but in nodding respect for the master and philosopher , t. h. green , he dedicated his essays in philosophical criticism to him . | |
| 77 | göttingen | 3 | INSTITUTION | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 78 | decision | 3 | DECISION | asquith wryly remarked " a very wrong decision come to upon inadequate grounds . " | |
| 79 | lawyer | 3 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 80 | january | 3 | PERIOD | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 81 | privy council | 3 | HUMAN GROUP | haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the privy council and house of lords . | |
| 82 | head | 3 | HEAD | haldane wrote , " one longs for rosebery had he been coming in to his right place at the head of affairs , we could have gone anywhere with confidence . | |
| 83 | philosopher | 3 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 84 | career | 3 | STATE | early political career | |
| 85 | peerage | 3 | COLLECTION | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 86 | philosopher politician | 3 | PERSON | ||
| 87 | france | 3 | PLACE | those reforms enabled britain to send some 120,000 men to france in fifteen days in august 1914 . | |
| 88 | argent | 3 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 89 | work | 3 | ACTIVITY | the mission was a failure and tensions with berlin forced london to work more closely with paris . | |
| 90 | intellect | 3 | FORM | rosebery admired haldane 's intellect , and the scotsman urged upon his friend , whom he had known since 1886 , an assault on tory power in the lords in 1894 . | |
| 91 | death | 3 | EVENT | haldane was sounded out for the speakership by rosebery , but refused it , declaring it to be a political death . | |
| 92 | man | 3 | PERSON | " the latter is a large , fat man " was haig 's initial impression of a dignified but portly demeanour . | |
| 93 | power | 3 | POWER | rosebery admired haldane 's intellect , and the scotsman urged upon his friend , whom he had known since 1886 , an assault on tory power in the lords in 1894 . | |
| 94 | decisions | 3 | DECISION | the effects of some of these decisions have subsequently been modified by later decisions of the judicial committee and the supreme court of canada , but they have had the long-term effect of recognising substantial provincial powers . | |
| 95 | june | 3 | PERIOD | in office 10 june 1912 - 25 may 1915 monarch george v prime minister h. h. | |
| 96 | members | 2 | PERSON | haldane was one of the first members of the cabinet to recognise that war with germany was inevitable and persuaded asquith to mobilise by assembly of the army council on 3 august . | |
| 97 | science | 2 | STUDY | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 98 | legislation | 2 | PERSON | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 99 | press | 2 | INSTITUTION | haldane 's removal was on account of the popularity of the press 's campaign relating to haldane 's alleged pro-german sympathies . | |
| 100 | figure | 2 | FIGURE | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 101 | removal | 2 | PROCESS | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 102 | charlotte square | 2 | PLACE | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 103 | british expeditionary force | 2 | FORCE | as secretary of state of war , he was instrumental in founding mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army , the british expeditionary force , and the royal air force . | |
| 104 | april | 2 | PERIOD | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 105 | support | 2 | ACT | haldane was persuaded by fellow liberal imperialist edward grey to begin planning for a continental war in support of the french against the germans . | |
| 106 | first world war | 2 | EVENT | first world war | |
| 107 | successor | 2 | NUMBER | in march 1914 haldane 's successor at the war office , jack seely , resigned following the curragh incident . | |
| 108 | failure | 2 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | the mission was a failure and tensions with berlin forced london to work more closely with paris . | |
| 109 | inn | 2 | BODY | after studying law in london , he was called to the bar by lincoln 's inn , in 1879 , and became a successful lawyer . | |
| 110 | continent | 2 | VALUE | that carried an unacceptable risk encouraging germany to go to war with france or russia and taking control of the continent . | |
| 111 | defence | 2 | PERSON | by 1914 britain spent 3.4 % of national income on defence , little more in absolute terms than austria-hungary 's 6.1 % . | |
| 112 | economics | 2 | STUDY | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 113 | st andrews | 2 | INSTITUTION | at the end of his life lord haldane was elected chancellor of the university of st andrews in june 1928 . | |
| 114 | beatrice webb | 2 | PERSON | at a meeting with beatrice webb haldane told her he was disconsolate at the condition of the liberal party : " rot has set in there is no hope now but to be beaten and then reconstruct a new party " . | |
| 115 | meeting | 2 | ACTIVITY | in 1881 haldane met h. h. asquith , and they soon became firm friends often meeting at the blue post public house on cork street . | |
| 116 | grounds | 2 | UNKNOWN | asquith wryly remarked " a very wrong decision come to upon inadequate grounds . " | |
| 117 | divisions | 2 | PROCESS | force of six infantry divisions and one cavalry division . | |
| 118 | sable | 2 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 119 | winston churchill | 2 | PERSON | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 120 | british army | 2 | HUMAN GROUP | he was secretary of state for war between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " haldane reforms " of the british army were implemented . | |
| 121 | biography | 2 | SEQUENCE | roy jenkins in his biography of asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and max egremont describes balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . | |
| 122 | world | 2 | PLACE | webb , the socialist who was a close intimate , remarked on how alone haldane was in the world . | |
| 123 | speakership | 2 | UNKNOWN | haldane was sounded out for the speakership by rosebery , but refused it , declaring it to be a political death . | |
| 124 | revolution | 2 | STUDY | however , on 11 october 1896 , he wrote to rosebery that he " was the leader of a revolution in our party " . | |
| 125 | group | 2 | GROUP | liberal imperialist focusing on his writings , haldane was passed over for political office , being the only one of his group left out in the wilderness . | |
| 126 | issues | 2 | ACTION | they were founders of the albert grey committee , named after albert grey , regularly discussing burning social issues , such as education . | |
| 127 | merit | 2 | STATEMENT | having been awarded the order of merit in 1915 , in the personal gift of george v , he wrote a memorandum of events , 1906-15 , to defend his reputation . | |
| 128 | club | 2 | INSTITUTION | club , a political dining and discussion club formed in 1879 . | |
| 129 | address | 2 | UNKNOWN | he also served as second chancellor of the university of bristol where he made an important address titled " the civic university " outlining his educational philosophy in 1911 . | |
| 130 | right | 2 | UNKNOWN | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 131 | contemporary review | 2 | ACT | the philosopher-politician wrote several articles for the advanced and progressive contemporary review . | |
| 132 | behalf | 2 | PERSON | asquith relied heavily on haldane as the previous war secretary and empowered him to carry out tasks at the war office on his behalf . | |
| 133 | direction | 2 | DIRECTION | in october 1888 , " the liberal creed " was published summarising his belief in the direction of new liberalism . | |
| 134 | division | 2 | PROCESS | force of six infantry divisions and one cavalry division . | |
| 135 | lincoln | 2 | PERSON | after studying law in london , he was called to the bar by lincoln 's inn , in 1879 , and became a successful lawyer . | |
| 136 | macmillan | 2 | PERSON | toronto : macmillan . 1921 . | |
| 137 | empire | 2 | STATE | contribution to canadian constitutional law as lord chancellor , haldane was a member of the judicial committee of the privy council , at that time the court of last resort for the empire . | |
| 138 | london school | 2 | INSTITUTION | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 139 | january haldane | 2 | PERSON | ||
| 140 | speeches | 2 | SPEECH | during the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , haldane advised his friend and prime minister , asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from churchill and lloyd george . | |
| 141 | imperial general staff | 2 | PLACE | haldane leaving reviewing grounds with clarence page townsley : capt e.r householder ; capt e.r. gregory army reforms main article : haldane reforms haldane set up the imperial general staff . | |
| 142 | haddingtonshire | 2 | PLACE | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 143 | illness | 2 | ILLNESS | stumbling from illness to illness , haldane 's own bad health was similar to king edward 's declining fortunes . | |
| 144 | intellectual | 2 | PERSON | as an intellectual he was fascinated with german thought . | |
| 145 | london university act | 2 | ACT | a fundamental believer in the power of improving education , he prepared the london university act 1898 . | |
| 146 | balmoral | 2 | PERSON | haldane had suggested involving the king at balmoral to ' kick cb upstairs ' . | |
| 147 | churchill | 2 | PERSON | during the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , haldane advised his friend and prime minister , asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from churchill and lloyd george . | |
| 148 | imperialist | 2 | PERSON | haldane became firmly ensconced in the imperialist wing of liberalism , led by sir edward grey . | |
| 149 | commerce power | 2 | POWER | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 150 | economy | 2 | STUDY | throughout his long career and association with the modernisers or ' limps ' haldane used his considerable intellect to great advantage against economy . | |
| 151 | platform | 2 | PLACE | however , haldane 's first estimates reduced the army by 16,600 men and reduced expenditure by £2.6m to £28 million , as the liberals had been elected on a platform of retrenchment . | |
| 152 | conservatives | 2 | UNKNOWN | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 153 | service | 2 | INSTITUTION | his reforms re-oriented british military policy , revamped army organization along the lines of the german general staff , upgraded the training of the auxiliary forces , and created an efficient and economically run service . | |
| 154 | master | 2 | PERSON | he had refused a place at balliol , but in nodding respect for the master and philosopher , t. h. green , he dedicated his essays in philosophical criticism to him . | |
| 155 | bonar law | 2 | PERSON | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 156 | corps | 2 | GROUP | force of 14 divisions ( the original plan was for 28 ) and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades at home , the officer training corps and the special reserve . | |
| 157 | sir edward grey | 2 | PERSON | haldane became firmly ensconced in the imperialist wing of liberalism , led by sir edward grey . | |
| 158 | attempt | 2 | ACTION | haldane mission of 1912 to berlin main article : haldane mission 1912 saw the unsuccessful attempt of the haldane mission , an effort to quell the friction between britain and germany arising because of their escalating naval arms race . | |
| 159 | founding | 2 | NUMBER | as secretary of state of war , he was instrumental in founding mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army , the british expeditionary force , and the royal air force . | |
| 160 | politician | 2 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 161 | marquess curzon | 2 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 3 november 1924 prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the marquess curzon of kedleston succeeded by the marquess curzon of kedleston secretary of state for war | |
| 162 | respect | 2 | EVENT | he had refused a place at balliol , but in nodding respect for the master and philosopher , t. h. green , he dedicated his essays in philosophical criticism to him . | |
| 163 | november | 2 | PERIOD | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 164 | outbreak | 2 | OCCURRENCE | following the outbreak of the first world war haldane was falsely accused of pro-german sympathies , in july 1914 , for hosting albert ballin , a german shipping magnate and unofficial mediator between germany and britain . | |
| 165 | bar | 2 | PLACE | after studying law in london , he was called to the bar by lincoln 's inn , in 1879 , and became a successful lawyer . | |
| 166 | richard burdon haldane | 2 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 167 | office december | 2 | PERIOD | ||
| 168 | day | 2 | PERIOD | haldane rejected the idea of the eight-hour day . | |
| 169 | instance | 2 | INSTANCE | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 170 | labour party | 2 | FORCE | he later joined the labour party and again served as lord chancellor in 1924 in the first labour administration . | |
| 171 | army council | 2 | HUMAN GROUP | esher had recommended the setting up of an army council and the abolition of the post of commander-in-chief , but few of his recommendations had been implemented before the change of government in december 1905 . | |
| 172 | idea | 2 | ACT | haldane rejected the idea of the eight-hour day . | |
| 173 | lord buckmaster | 2 | PERSON | asquith preceded by the earl loreburn succeeded by the lord buckmaster | |
| 174 | peace | 2 | STATE | in doing so , he gave very restrictive readings to both the " peace , order and good government " power of the federal government , as well as the federal criminal law power . | |
| 175 | precedents | 2 | EVENT | he is versed in precedents , acts on principle , and knows how and when to compromise . | |
| 176 | contribution | 2 | EVENT | contribution to canadian constitutional law as lord chancellor , haldane was a member of the judicial committee of the privy council , at that time the court of last resort for the empire . | |
| 177 | unity | 2 | DOCUMENT PART | unity in the liberals helped them obtain the largest electoral majority in the party 's history in the 1906 general election . | |
| 178 | plan | 2 | PLAN | but it seems now as if this were not to be and we have to do the only thing we can do , which is to resolutely follow a plan of concerted action " . | |
| 179 | charges | 2 | AMOUNT | roy jenkins in his biography of asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and max egremont describes balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . | |
| 180 | office | 2 | PLACE | in office 10 june 1912 - 25 may 1915 monarch george v prime minister h. h. | |
| 181 | saltire | 2 | UNKNOWN | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 182 | canadian constitution | 2 | ACT | he sat on several cases from canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the canadian constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the british north america act 1867 . | |
| 183 | parliament | 2 | HUMAN GROUP | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 184 | general election | 2 | PROCESS | a cousin , the whig politician lord camperdown encouraged the young barrister into standing as a liberal at the general election of 1880 . | |
| 185 | study | 2 | STUDY | more recently , one major study has characterised him as " the wicked stepfather " of the canadian constitution . | |
| 186 | lord haldane | 2 | PERSON | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 187 | expenditure | 2 | ACT | however , haldane 's first estimates reduced the army by 16,600 men and reduced expenditure by £2.6m to £28 million , as the liberals had been elected on a platform of retrenchment . | |
| 188 | advice | 2 | DECISION | on promoting churchill to first lord of the admiralty , asquith advised him to seek haldane 's advice at a meeting held at archerfield , north berwick . | |
| 189 | works | 2 | UNKNOWN | 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 . | |
| 190 | sense | 2 | SOUND | a fluent german-speaker , haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . | |
| 191 | law | 2 | PERSON | after studying law in london , he was called to the bar by lincoln 's inn , in 1879 , and became a successful lawyer . | |
| 192 | office january | 2 | PERIOD | ||
| 193 | directors | 2 | INSTITUTION | lennard 's carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac 705 , directors are presumed to be the controlling minds of the company * | |
| 194 | cousin | 2 | PERSON | a cousin , the whig politician lord camperdown encouraged the young barrister into standing as a liberal at the general election of 1880 . | |
| 195 | admiralty | 2 | FORCE | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 196 | post | 2 | UNKNOWN | in 1881 haldane met h. h. asquith , and they soon became firm friends often meeting at the blue post public house on cork street . | |
| 197 | auchterarder | 2 | UNKNOWN | auchterarder , scotland political party liberal ( 1879-1923 ) labour ( 1923-1928 ) | |
| 198 | first lord | 2 | PERSON | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 199 | novel | 1 | EVENT | in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson , sister of his liberal party friend , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel betsy in 1892 . | |
| 200 | h. o. arnold forster | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 201 | role | 1 | ROLE | that led to his role in seeking detente with germany in 1912 in the haldane mission . | |
| 202 | interference | 1 | STATE | company limited and others v the king ukpc 27 * macedo v stroud ac 330 , property transfer * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac 709 , interference with contractual relations * | |
| 203 | fiancée | 1 | UNKNOWN | haldane remained a lifelong bachelor after his fiancée , miss valentine ferguson , broke off their engagement . | |
| 204 | daily express | 1 | IMAGE | he was harried in particular by beaverbrook 's daily express , which gave great publicity to the claim by professor onkel of heidelberg that he had said " germany was his spiritual home " . | |
| 205 | birkenhead | 1 | PLACE | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 206 | price maintenance | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 207 | skill | 1 | SKILL | haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the privy council and house of lords . | |
| 208 | legislature | 1 | BODY | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 209 | research | 1 | EVENT | this work led to the idea that decisions about what to spend research funds on should be made by researchers rather than politicians being named the haldane principle . | |
| 210 | aggressor | 1 | PERSON | the mission was a failure because the germans would agree to slow the tempo of its warship construction only if britain promised to remain neutral if germany should become engaged in a war where " germany could not be said to be the aggressor . " | |
| 211 | horace | 1 | PERSON | he was taken on at 5 new square chambers by horace | |
| 212 | collection | 1 | COLLECTION | he was also involved in the founding of imperial college in 1907 and in his honour the university contained the haldane recreational library , which now forms part of the main library collection . | |
| 213 | set | 1 | SET | at a meeting with beatrice webb haldane told her he was disconsolate at the condition of the liberal party : " rot has set in there is no hope now but to be beaten and then reconstruct a new party " . | |
| 214 | henry campbell bannerman | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 215 | may | 1 | PERIOD | in office 10 june 1912 - 25 may 1915 monarch george v prime minister h. h. | |
| 216 | george v | 1 | PERSON | in office 10 june 1912 - 25 may 1915 monarch george v prime minister h. h. | |
| 217 | compromise | 1 | AGREEMENT | he is versed in precedents , acts on principle , and knows how and when to compromise . | |
| 218 | rank | 1 | RANK | but the kaiser , refusing to converse with a mere secretary , arrogantly insisted that only the king was of equal rank . | |
| 219 | imperial college london | 1 | PLACE | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 220 | lennox | 1 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 221 | britain spent | 1 | PLACE | by 1914 britain spent 3.4 % of national income on defence , little more in absolute terms than austria-hungary 's 6.1 % . | |
| 222 | speculation | 1 | ACT | after the conservative government of arthur balfour fell in december 1905 there was some speculation that asquith and his allies haldane and grey would refuse to serve unless henry campbell-bannerman accepted a peerage , which would have left asquith as the real leader in the house of commons . | |
| 223 | symons | 1 | PERSON | heilbut , symons & co v buckleton ukhl 2 , no damages for non-fraudulent misrepresentation , reversed by hedley byrne * british westinghouse electric and manufacturing co v underground | |
| 224 | contributions | 1 | EVENT | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 225 | idealism | 1 | FORM | he founded the officers ' training corps . — lord birkenhead ( n.d. ) , idealism in international politics . | |
| 226 | photographs | 1 | PICTURE | papers and photographs of richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , and of the haldane family . , national library of scotland an autobiography . | |
| 227 | speaker | 1 | PROCESS | a fluent german speaker , haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . | |
| 228 | membership | 1 | BODY | membership was restricted to liberals under the age of forty . | |
| 229 | colonel j.e.b | 1 | PERSON | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 230 | position | 1 | POSITION | he retained the position even when he was no longer chancellor . | |
| 231 | centre | 1 | UNKNOWN | he told rosebery " a sense of nation is working towards ...a great centre party . " | |
| 232 | recognition | 1 | ACT | apart from his legal and political careers , haldane was an influential writer on philosophy , in recognition of which he was elected a fellow of the british academy in 1914 . | |
| 233 | westminster central hall | 1 | PLACE | haldane refused to join the platform for asquith 's speech at westminster central hall in january 1922 . | |
| 234 | walter reid | 1 | PERSON | walter reid believed haldane to be the greatest of the secretaries for war . | |
| 235 | walker | 1 | PERSON | a lifelong walker and cigar smoker , he was diagnosed diabetic . | |
| 236 | tiresome | 1 | UNKNOWN | at the time of the paisley by-election of january 1920 haldane was in the process of shifting his sympathies from liberal to labour , and was wrongly thought to have endorsed labour ( earning a rebuke from margot asquith , whom haldane thought " tiresome because she is ignorant " , to his aged mother ) . | |
| 237 | scotland an autobiography | 1 | PLACE | papers and photographs of richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , and of the haldane family . , national library of scotland an autobiography . | |
| 238 | expression | 1 | UNKNOWN | to the detriment of their relationship , asquith gave no personal expression to haldane . | |
| 239 | e.r. gregory army | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | haldane leaving reviewing grounds with clarence page townsley : capt e.r householder ; capt e.r. gregory army reforms main article : haldane reforms haldane set up the imperial general staff . | |
| 240 | mitigation | 1 | ACT | electric railway co of london ac 673 , 689 , on mitigation * | |
| 241 | 1 | UNKNOWN | a rectorial address , delivered on november 23rd ( pdf ) , peterborough : the peterborough press , p. 9 | ||
| 242 | niceties | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | during the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , haldane advised his friend and prime minister , asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from churchill and lloyd george . | |
| 243 | blow | 1 | INSTANCE | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 244 | quarters | 1 | EVENT | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 245 | foreign office | 1 | PLACE | as the situation in europe worsened , asquith kept haldane abreast of developments with sir edward grey at the foreign office . | |
| 246 | mediator | 1 | PERSON | following the outbreak of the first world war haldane was falsely accused of pro-german sympathies , in july 1914 , for hosting albert ballin , a german shipping magnate and unofficial mediator between germany and britain . | |
| 247 | intimate | 1 | PERSON | webb , the socialist who was a close intimate , remarked on how alone haldane was in the world . | |
| 248 | friction | 1 | FORCE | haldane mission of 1912 to berlin main article : haldane mission 1912 saw the unsuccessful attempt of the haldane mission , an effort to quell the friction between britain and germany arising because of their escalating naval arms race . | |
| 249 | council | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the privy council and house of lords . | |
| 250 | cause | 1 | CAUSE | he stated that his main interest in public life was now education reform and that the cause was not best served by endorsing the liberal party . | |
| 251 | field marshal kitchener | 1 | PERSON | with war imminent , asquith was happy for haldane to continue at the war office formally as secretary of state for war , but haldane persuaded him to appoint field marshal kitchener . | |
| 252 | chloroform | 1 | COMPOUND | here , indeed , he was a match for those who distributed the chloroform of berlin . | |
| 253 | account | 1 | PERMISSION | haldane 's removal was on account of the popularity of the press 's campaign relating to haldane 's alleged pro-german sympathies . | |
| 254 | tensions | 1 | CONDITION | the mission was a failure and tensions with berlin forced london to work more closely with paris . | |
| 255 | birthplace | 1 | LOCATION | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 256 | air | 1 | AIR | as secretary of state of war , he was instrumental in founding mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army , the british expeditionary force , and the royal air force . | |
| 257 | cabinet members | 1 | PERSON | asquith ranked his cabinet , putting haldane only sixth of the inner cabinet members . | |
| 258 | front | 1 | PLACE | following his departure from the government haldane went to the front to meet his old friend general haig , and his cousin , general aylmer haldane , but he was exhausted on being ejected from cabinet . | |
| 259 | belief | 1 | TRUST | in october 1888 , " the liberal creed " was published summarising his belief in the direction of new liberalism . | |
| 260 | office june | 1 | PERIOD | ||
| 261 | beaverbrook | 1 | PERSON | he was harried in particular by beaverbrook 's daily express , which gave great publicity to the claim by professor onkel of heidelberg that he had said " germany was his spiritual home " . | |
| 262 | souls | 1 | PERSON | the king used his influence and charm to cultivate allies , bringing cross-party groups like the souls together in consensual amity . | |
| 263 | coalition government | 1 | GOVERNMENT | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 264 | budget crisis | 1 | EVENT | during the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , haldane advised his friend and prime minister , asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from churchill and lloyd george . | |
| 265 | british | 1 | UNKNOWN | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 266 | institute | 1 | INSTITUTION | as president of the institute of public administration , he was a leading intellectual on the philosophy of governance . | |
| 267 | colonial defence committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | before haldane , there was only the defence committee of the cabinet , which met only in emergencies , and the colonial defence committee . | |
| 268 | landscapes | 1 | SITUATION | his efforts have left a lasting impact on both the uk 's defense and educational landscapes . | |
| 269 | railway | 1 | SYSTEM | but the import was the berlin-baghdad railway which germany was hoping to construct with british approval . | |
| 270 | mr manhattan | 1 | PLACE | the accusations were widely believed and were even echoed in a popular music hall song ( " all dressed up and nowhere to go " ) in the revue " mr manhattan " . | |
| 271 | war imminent | 1 | UNKNOWN | with war imminent , asquith was happy for haldane to continue at the war office formally as secretary of state for war , but haldane persuaded him to appoint field marshal kitchener . | |
| 272 | believer | 1 | PERSON | a fundamental believer in the power of improving education , he prepared the london university act 1898 . | |
| 273 | government ministers | 1 | PERSON | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 274 | shores | 1 | LAND | the official historian brigadier james edmonds later wrote that " in every respect the expeditionary force of 1914 was incomparably the best trained , best organised and best equipped british army ever to leave these shores " | |
| 275 | adam smith | 1 | PERSON | he wrote a biography of adam smith , extolling the virtues of free trade . | |
| 276 | county | 1 | PLACE | two elections ensued , one in january and another in december 1910 , before in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as viscount haldane , of cloan in the county of perth . | |
| 277 | majority | 1 | PROPERTY | unity in the liberals helped them obtain the largest electoral majority in the party 's history in the 1906 general election . | |
| 278 | clog | 1 | CONCEPT | kreglinger v new patagonia meat & cold storage co ltd ukhl 1 , no clog on equity of redemption * | |
| 279 | task | 1 | UNKNOWN | despite the budgetary constraints , haldane implemented a wide-ranging set of reforms of the army , aimed at preparing the army for an imperial war but with the more likely ( and secret ) task of a european war . | |
| 280 | organization | 1 | INSTITUTION | his reforms re-oriented british military policy , revamped army organization along the lines of the german general staff , upgraded the training of the auxiliary forces , and created an efficient and economically run service . | |
| 281 | emma ferguson | 1 | PERSON | emma ferguson died insane in 1897 . | |
| 282 | dinner party | 1 | FORCE | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 283 | plot | 1 | RESOURCE | however , the plot ( called " the relugas compact " after grey 's | |
| 284 | uncle | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 285 | richard haldane | 1 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 286 | depositors | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 287 | modernisers | 1 | UNKNOWN | throughout his long career and association with the modernisers or ' limps ' haldane used his considerable intellect to great advantage against economy . | |
| 288 | bristol | 1 | INSTITUTION | he also served as second chancellor of the university of bristol where he made an important address titled " the civic university " outlining his educational philosophy in 1911 . | |
| 289 | liberalism | 1 | BODY | in october 1888 , " the liberal creed " was published summarising his belief in the direction of new liberalism . | |
| 290 | practice | 1 | COLLECTION | haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the privy council and house of lords . | |
| 291 | dismissal | 1 | PERSON | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 292 | albert grey | 1 | PERSON | they were founders of the albert grey committee , named after albert grey , regularly discussing burning social issues , such as education . | |
| 293 | specialism | 1 | CONCEPT | haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the privy council and house of lords . | |
| 294 | british academy | 1 | INSTITUTION | apart from his legal and political careers , haldane was an influential writer on philosophy , in recognition of which he was elected a fellow of the british academy in 1914 . | |
| 295 | detente | 1 | UNKNOWN | that led to his role in seeking detente with germany in 1912 in the haldane mission . | |
| 296 | annum | 1 | TIME PERIOD | by 1905 he was earning £20,000 per annum at the bar ( equivalent to £2.7 million in 2023 ) . | |
| 297 | belly | 1 | UNKNOWN | lloyd george knows nothing for precedents and cares for no principles , but he has fire in his belly and that is what we want . " | |
| 298 | education university | 1 | INSTITUTION | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 299 | accusations | 1 | AMOUNT | the accusations were widely believed and were even echoed in a popular music hall song ( " all dressed up and nowhere to go " ) in the revue " mr manhattan " . | |
| 300 | aircraft | 1 | VEHICLE | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 301 | others v | 1 | UNKNOWN | company limited and others v the king ukpc 27 * macedo v stroud ac 330 , property transfer * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac 709 , interference with contractual relations * | |
| 302 | secret | 1 | FORM | despite the budgetary constraints , haldane implemented a wide-ranging set of reforms of the army , aimed at preparing the army for an imperial war but with the more likely ( and secret ) task of a european war . | |
| 303 | match | 1 | FORM | here , indeed , he was a match for those who distributed the chloroform of berlin . | |
| 304 | followers | 1 | PERSON | haldane remained an ally of asquith and grey in the liberal imperialist wing of the party , followers of lord rosebery rather than of sir william harcourt . | |
| 305 | surprise announcement | 1 | EVENT | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 306 | purpose | 1 | PURPOSE | he devised the territorial army , which was capable of becoming the easy nucleus of national conscription , and which unquestionably ought to have been used for that purpose at the outbreak of war . | |
| 307 | amid | 1 | PERSON | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 308 | law as lord chancellor | 1 | PERSON | contribution to canadian constitutional law as lord chancellor , haldane was a member of the judicial committee of the privy council , at that time the court of last resort for the empire . | |
| 309 | november monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 310 | income | 1 | DISEASE | by 1914 britain spent 3.4 % of national income on defence , little more in absolute terms than austria-hungary 's 6.1 % . | |
| 311 | reputation | 1 | REPUTATION | having been awarded the order of merit in 1915 , in the personal gift of george v , he wrote a memorandum of events , 1906-15 , to defend his reputation . | |
| 312 | oclc | 1 | UNKNOWN | oclc 771158008 . | |
| 313 | haldane principle | 1 | PERSON | this work led to the idea that decisions about what to spend research funds on should be made by researchers rather than politicians being named the haldane principle . | |
| 314 | symmetry | 1 | SIMILARITY | hegel 's aristocratic desire for law and order and defence of property against revolution had a mathematical symmetry . | |
| 315 | eye | 1 | PERSON | he suffered from bad rheumatism , a stigmata in the eye and in 1909 , he had to take bed rest when going blind from iritis . | |
| 316 | advantage | 1 | CONDITION | throughout his long career and association with the modernisers or ' limps ' haldane used his considerable intellect to great advantage against economy . | |
| 317 | labour peers | 1 | PERSON | he was also joint leader of the labour peers with lord parmoor . | |
| 318 | cares | 1 | PERSON | lloyd george knows nothing for precedents and cares for no principles , but he has fire in his belly and that is what we want . " | |
| 319 | prices | 1 | AMOUNT | in march 1914 effective expenditure on the army , after allowing for increased pensions and £1m set aside for military aviation , was still less than in 1907-8 , and £2m less than in 1905-6 ( despite a 20 % rise in prices since then ) . | |
| 320 | stepfather | 1 | PERSON | more recently , one major study has characterised him as " the wicked stepfather " of the canadian constitution . | |
| 321 | tasks | 1 | UNKNOWN | asquith relied heavily on haldane as the previous war secretary and empowered him to carry out tasks at the war office on his behalf . | |
| 322 | things | 1 | ACTIVITY | " the reign of relativity " combined haldane 's love of all things german expressed by goethe and his works , with the hegelian military-industrial complex . | |
| 323 | allies | 1 | PERSON | the king used his influence and charm to cultivate allies , bringing cross-party groups like the souls together in consensual amity . | |
| 324 | impression | 1 | INSTANCE | " the latter is a large , fat man " was haig 's initial impression of a dignified but portly demeanour . | |
| 325 | bend chequy sable | 1 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 326 | barrister | 1 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 327 | fault | 1 | QUANTITY | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 328 | character | 1 | EVENT | from a pan-european perspective he analysed the german character and economic advances towards militarism . | |
| 329 | lord fisher | 1 | PLACE | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 330 | expeditionary force | 1 | FORCE | as secretary of state of war , he was instrumental in founding mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army , the british expeditionary force , and the royal air force . | |
| 331 | edinburgh sir walter scott club | 1 | INSTITUTION | in 1904 , he was president of the edinburgh sir walter scott club and gave the toast to sir walter at the club 's annual dinner , addressing " the dedicated life " to a group of students on 10 january 1907 . | |
| 332 | elections | 1 | PROCESS | two elections ensued , one in january and another in december 1910 , before in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as viscount haldane , of cloan in the county of perth . | |
| 333 | efforts | 1 | ACTION | his efforts have left a lasting impact on both the uk 's defense and educational landscapes . | |
| 334 | edinburgh profession barrister charlotte square | 1 | PLACE | ||
| 335 | spy | 1 | RESOURCE | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 336 | centrism | 1 | CONCEPT | his moral centrism sought to unify the new liberalism , as he published it in contemporary review . | |
| 337 | officer | 1 | PERSON | force of 14 divisions ( the original plan was for 28 ) and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades at home , the officer training corps and the special reserve . | |
| 338 | hegelian | 1 | UNKNOWN | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 339 | hugo | 1 | PERSON | december 1885 - 27 march 1911 preceded by hugo charteris succeeded by john hope personal details born ( 1856-07-30) 30 july 1856 edinburgh , scotland died 19 | |
| 340 | beatrice webb haldane | 1 | PERSON | at a meeting with beatrice webb haldane told her he was disconsolate at the condition of the liberal party : " rot has set in there is no hope now but to be beaten and then reconstruct a new party " . | |
| 341 | firebrand speeches | 1 | SPEECH | during the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , haldane advised his friend and prime minister , asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from churchill and lloyd george . | |
| 342 | amity | 1 | EVENT | the king used his influence and charm to cultivate allies , bringing cross-party groups like the souls together in consensual amity . | |
| 343 | toast | 1 | EVENT | in 1904 , he was president of the edinburgh sir walter scott club and gave the toast to sir walter at the club 's annual dinner , addressing " the dedicated life " to a group of students on 10 january 1907 . | |
| 344 | pathos | 1 | UNKNOWN | webb remarked , " he had pathos in his personality , a successful lawyer tinged with socialism . " | |
| 345 | exchequer | 1 | AMOUNT | scottish lodge where the men met ) collapsed when asquith agreed to serve as chancellor of the exchequer under campbell-bannerman . | |
| 346 | jones v jones ac | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 347 | combines | 1 | UNKNOWN | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 348 | western front | 1 | PLACE | perhaps his greatest speech on education was made in house of lords on 12 july 1916 , at the height of the terrible slaughter on the western front . | |
| 349 | writer | 1 | PERSON | apart from his legal and political careers , haldane was an influential writer on philosophy , in recognition of which he was elected a fellow of the british academy in 1914 . | |
| 350 | lords library | 1 | PLACE | amongst his early friends was edmund gosse , the librarian of the house of lords library . | |
| 351 | revue | 1 | FORM | the accusations were widely believed and were even echoed in a popular music hall song ( " all dressed up and nowhere to go " ) in the revue " mr manhattan " . | |
| 352 | austria hungary | 1 | PLACE | ||
| 353 | allegations | 1 | ACT | raised to the peerage as viscount haldane in 1911 , he was lord chancellor between 1912 and 1915 , when he was forced to resign because of allegations of german sympathies . | |
| 354 | stage | 1 | STAGE | the pathway to reality : stage the second . | |
| 355 | eight hours question | 1 | QUESTION | in the 1890 article " the eight hours question " | |
| 356 | conscription | 1 | UNIT | he devised the territorial army , which was capable of becoming the easy nucleus of national conscription , and which unquestionably ought to have been used for that purpose at the outbreak of war . | |
| 357 | equity | 1 | PROPERTY | kreglinger v new patagonia meat & cold storage co ltd ukhl 1 , no clog on equity of redemption * | |
| 358 | labour movement | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | haldane added the preface to leonard hobhouse 's the labour movement in 1893 . | |
| 359 | militarism | 1 | BODY | from a pan-european perspective he analysed the german character and economic advances towards militarism . | |
| 360 | properties | 1 | PROPERTY | haldane was responsible for drafting the london university act 1926 , purchasing properties in euston . | |
| 361 | mrs humphry ward | 1 | PERSON | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 362 | nucleus | 1 | POSITION | he devised the territorial army , which was capable of becoming the easy nucleus of national conscription , and which unquestionably ought to have been used for that purpose at the outbreak of war . | |
| 363 | second memorandum | 1 | NUMBER | he was accredited as an efficient bureaucratic leader , notably founding the territorial army in a second memorandum . | |
| 364 | association | 1 | INSTITUTION | throughout his long career and association with the modernisers or ' limps ' haldane used his considerable intellect to great advantage against economy . | |
| 365 | honours | 1 | UNKNOWN | he gained a first and ma at university of edinburgh where he received first-class honours in philosophy and was gray scholar and ferguson scholar . | |
| 366 | john murray | 1 | PERSON | london : john murray . | |
| 367 | preparedness | 1 | STATE | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 368 | army expenditure | 1 | ACT | army expenditure was determined according to a formula devised by the esher committee . | |
| 369 | leonard hobhouse | 1 | PERSON | haldane added the preface to leonard hobhouse 's the labour movement in 1893 . | |
| 370 | year | 1 | PERIOD | although not elected that year haldane joined the eighty | |
| 371 | appointment | 1 | DECISION | on 11 august 1902 , haldane was admitted to the privy council , following an announcement of the king 's intention to make the appointment in the 1902 coronation honours list , published in june that year . | |
| 372 | statute | 1 | PERSON | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 373 | clarence page townsley | 1 | PERSON | haldane leaving reviewing grounds with clarence page townsley : capt e.r householder ; capt e.r. gregory army reforms main article : haldane reforms haldane set up the imperial general staff . | |
| 374 | cold storage co ltd ukhl | 1 | PERSON | kreglinger v new patagonia meat & cold storage co ltd ukhl 1 , no clog on equity of redemption * | |
| 375 | roses gules | 1 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 376 | procession | 1 | STATE | osbert sitwell described him as " entering a room with the air of a whole procession " . | |
| 377 | demands | 1 | EVENT | neither the former prime minister arthur balfour , haldane 's closest friend amongst the conservatives , nor asquith , the liberal prime minister of the day and haldane 's closest political ally and friend for over 30 years , did anything to resist bonar law 's demands . | |
| 378 | kaiser wilhelm ii | 1 | PERSON | in october 1907 haldane was intimately involved with the negotiations at windsor with kaiser wilhelm ii . | |
| 379 | daughter | 1 | PERSON | background and education haldane was born at 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , the son of robert haldane and his wife mary elizabeth , daughter of richard burdon-sanderson . | |
| 380 | tendency | 1 | TENDENCY | he gave the decision for the judicial committee in several of those cases , and showed a marked tendency to favour the provincial powers at the expense of the federal government . | |
| 381 | labour politician | 1 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 382 | legality | 1 | PROPERTY | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 383 | public administration | 1 | ARRANGEMENT | as president of the institute of public administration , he was a leading intellectual on the philosophy of governance . | |
| 384 | counsel | 1 | PERSON | by 1890 he had become a queen 's counsel . | |
| 385 | creation | 1 | EVENT | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 386 | education haldane | 1 | PERSON | background and education haldane was born at 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , the son of robert haldane and his wife mary elizabeth , daughter of richard burdon-sanderson . | |
| 387 | backgrounds | 1 | INFORMATION | another imperialist , winston churchill also respected haldane , although they were from differing social backgrounds . | |
| 388 | special reserve | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | force of 14 divisions ( the original plan was for 28 ) and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades at home , the officer training corps and the special reserve . | |
| 389 | dining | 1 | EVENT | club , a political dining and discussion club formed in 1879 . | |
| 390 | edmund gosse | 1 | PERSON | amongst his early friends was edmund gosse , the librarian of the house of lords library . | |
| 391 | detriment | 1 | INJURY | to the detriment of their relationship , asquith gave no personal expression to haldane . | |
| 392 | breed | 1 | RACE | haldane was a deep thinker , an unusual breed : a philosopher-politician . | |
| 393 | territorial force | 1 | FORCE | ||
| 394 | rheumatism | 1 | CONDITION | he suffered from bad rheumatism , a stigmata in the eye and in 1909 , he had to take bed rest when going blind from iritis . | |
| 395 | perth | 1 | PLACE | two elections ensued , one in january and another in december 1910 , before in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as viscount haldane , of cloan in the county of perth . | |
| 396 | hodder | 1 | PERSON | london : hodder and stoughton . 1929 . | |
| 397 | fellow | 1 | EVENT | apart from his legal and political careers , haldane was an influential writer on philosophy , in recognition of which he was elected a fellow of the british academy in 1914 . | |
| 398 | careers | 1 | STATE | apart from his legal and political careers , haldane was an influential writer on philosophy , in recognition of which he was elected a fellow of the british academy in 1914 . | |
| 399 | board | 1 | BODY | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 400 | minister arthur balfour | 1 | PERSON | neither the former prime minister arthur balfour , haldane 's closest friend amongst the conservatives , nor asquith , the liberal prime minister of the day and haldane 's closest political ally and friend for over 30 years , did anything to resist bonar law 's demands . | |
| 401 | ties | 1 | PERSON | as the war progressed haldane moved increasingly close to the labour party , but he was held back by his ties to the liberal party and to asquith . | |
| 402 | historian correlli barnett | 1 | PERSON | the military historian correlli barnett claimed that haldane had " all-round personal talents far exceeding those of his predecessors " as secretary of state for war and that he was " a man of first-class intellect and wide education " . | |
| 403 | liberal imperialist edward grey | 1 | PERSON | haldane was persuaded by fellow liberal imperialist edward grey to begin planning for a continental war in support of the french against the germans . | |
| 404 | abolition | 1 | QUALITY | esher had recommended the setting up of an army council and the abolition of the post of commander-in-chief , but few of his recommendations had been implemented before the change of government in december 1905 . | |
| 405 | aeronautics | 1 | RULE | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 406 | shell crisis | 1 | EVENT | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 407 | resignation | 1 | ACT | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 408 | independence | 1 | QUALITY | when the irish war of independence broke out in 1919 , haldane was one of the first british politicians to argue that the solution lay in compromise rather than force . | |
| 409 | property transfer | 1 | UNKNOWN | company limited and others v the king ukpc 27 * macedo v stroud ac 330 , property transfer * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac 709 , interference with contractual relations * | |
| 410 | right honourable | 1 | UNKNOWN | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 411 | september | 1 | PERIOD | another such conference took place at balmoral in september 1909 . | |
| 412 | edinburgh academy | 1 | INSTITUTION | he received his first education at the edinburgh academy , and then at the university of göttingen . | |
| 413 | foreign secretary | 1 | PERSON | on 13 december 1905 , haldane was appointed secretary of state for war , but he may have been offered the jobs of attorney-general and home secretary . ( grey became foreign secretary ) . | |
| 414 | arms reduction principles | 1 | NATURE | the germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . | |
| 415 | great west saddlery company limited | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 416 | policy | 1 | RULE | his reforms re-oriented british military policy , revamped army organization along the lines of the german general staff , upgraded the training of the auxiliary forces , and created an efficient and economically run service . | |
| 417 | personality | 1 | STATE | webb remarked , " he had pathos in his personality , a successful lawyer tinged with socialism . " | |
| 418 | esher committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | army expenditure was determined according to a formula devised by the esher committee . | |
| 419 | june prime minister sir henry campbell bannerman h. h. asquith | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 420 | europe | 1 | PLACE | as the situation in europe worsened , asquith kept haldane abreast of developments with sir edward grey at the foreign office . | |
| 421 | education reform | 1 | AMOUNT | he stated that his main interest in public life was now education reform and that the cause was not best served by endorsing the liberal party . | |
| 422 | civic university | 1 | INSTITUTION | he also served as second chancellor of the university of bristol where he made an important address titled " the civic university " outlining his educational philosophy in 1911 . | |
| 423 | life lord haldane | 1 | PERSON | at the end of his life lord haldane was elected chancellor of the university of st andrews in june 1928 . | |
| 424 | host | 1 | INSTITUTION | being a fluent german speaker , ascetic philosopher and atheist , he played host to albert einstein , when he visited london in 1921 . | |
| 425 | assault | 1 | UNKNOWN | rosebery admired haldane 's intellect , and the scotsman urged upon his friend , whom he had known since 1886 , an assault on tory power in the lords in 1894 . | |
| 426 | sir william harcourt | 1 | PERSON | haldane remained an ally of asquith and grey in the liberal imperialist wing of the party , followers of lord rosebery rather than of sir william harcourt . | |
| 427 | developments | 1 | SUBSTANCE | as the situation in europe worsened , asquith kept haldane abreast of developments with sir edward grey at the foreign office . | |
| 428 | effect | 1 | EFFECT | the effects of some of these decisions have subsequently been modified by later decisions of the judicial committee and the supreme court of canada , but they have had the long-term effect of recognising substantial provincial powers . | |
| 429 | viscount haldane crest an eagle | 1 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 430 | august member | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 431 | march haldane | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 432 | official historian brigadier james edmonds | 1 | PERSON | the official historian brigadier james edmonds later wrote that " in every respect the expeditionary force of 1914 was incomparably the best trained , best organised and best equipped british army ever to leave these shores " | |
| 433 | london ac | 1 | PLACE | electric railway co of london ac 673 , 689 , on mitigation * | |
| 434 | government power | 1 | POWER | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 435 | thought | 1 | UNKNOWN | as an intellectual he was fascinated with german thought . | |
| 436 | level | 1 | DOCUMENT | in fact he favoured asquith 's election on a personal level . | |
| 437 | points | 1 | UNKNOWN | j. a . spender later wrote of how haldane got the best work out of an able but verbally-incoherent soldier ( thought to refer to haig ) by not scoring verbal points off him , as many politicians would have done . | |
| 438 | linguist | 1 | VERTEBRATE | the germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . | |
| 439 | slaughter | 1 | EVENT | perhaps his greatest speech on education was made in house of lords on 12 july 1916 , at the height of the terrible slaughter on the western front . | |
| 440 | rebuke | 1 | ACT | at the time of the paisley by-election of january 1920 haldane was in the process of shifting his sympathies from liberal to labour , and was wrongly thought to have endorsed labour ( earning a rebuke from margot asquith , whom haldane thought " tiresome because she is ignorant " , to his aged mother ) . | |
| 441 | court | 1 | EVENT | contribution to canadian constitutional law as lord chancellor , haldane was a member of the judicial committee of the privy council , at that time the court of last resort for the empire . | |
| 442 | montagu | 1 | PERSON | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 443 | sinclair v brougham ac | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 444 | royal air force | 1 | FORCE | as secretary of state of war , he was instrumental in founding mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army , the british expeditionary force , and the royal air force . | |
| 445 | atheist | 1 | PERSON | being a fluent german speaker , ascetic philosopher and atheist , he played host to albert einstein , when he visited london in 1921 . | |
| 446 | haldane reforms | 1 | PERSON | he was secretary of state for war between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " haldane reforms " of the british army were implemented . | |
| 447 | emma valentine ferguson | 1 | PERSON | in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson , sister of his liberal party friend , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel betsy in 1892 . | |
| 448 | academics | 1 | EVENT | haldane 's approach to the division of powers was heavily criticised by some academics and lawyers in canada , such as f. r. scott and chief justice bora laskin , as unduly favouring the provinces over the federal government and depriving it of the powers needed to deal with modern economic issues . | |
| 449 | bachelor | 1 | PERSON | haldane remained a lifelong bachelor after his fiancée , miss valentine ferguson , broke off their engagement . | |
| 450 | vanity fair | 1 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 451 | aviation | 1 | VEHICLE | in march 1914 effective expenditure on the army , after allowing for increased pensions and £1m set aside for military aviation , was still less than in 1907-8 , and £2m less than in 1905-6 ( despite a 20 % rise in prices since then ) . | |
| 452 | heidelberg | 1 | PLACE | he was harried in particular by beaverbrook 's daily express , which gave great publicity to the claim by professor onkel of heidelberg that he had said " germany was his spiritual home " . | |
| 453 | process | 1 | PROCESS | at the time of the paisley by-election of january 1920 haldane was in the process of shifting his sympathies from liberal to labour , and was wrongly thought to have endorsed labour ( earning a rebuke from margot asquith , whom haldane thought " tiresome because she is ignorant " , to his aged mother ) . | |
| 454 | germanophile | 1 | UNKNOWN | the germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . | |
| 455 | socialist | 1 | PERSON | webb , the socialist who was a close intimate , remarked on how alone haldane was in the world . | |
| 456 | german speaker | 1 | PROCESS | being a fluent german speaker , ascetic philosopher and atheist , he played host to albert einstein , when he visited london in 1921 . | |
| 457 | haldane chairman | 1 | PERSON | in december 1918 , lloyd george appointed haldane chairman of ' the machinery of government ' committee . | |
| 458 | cavalry division | 1 | PROCESS | force of six infantry divisions and one cavalry division . | |
| 459 | leaders | 1 | PERSON | the leaders of the party were exasperated and believed rosebery to lack planning and direction . | |
| 460 | sir walter | 1 | PERSON | in 1904 , he was president of the edinburgh sir walter scott club and gave the toast to sir walter at the club 's annual dinner , addressing " the dedicated life " to a group of students on 10 january 1907 . | |
| 461 | reformers | 1 | PERSON | haldane was a member of the coefficients dining club of social reformers set up in 1902 by the fabian campaigners | |
| 462 | force | 1 | FORCE | as secretary of state of war , he was instrumental in founding mi5 , mi6 , the territorial army , the british expeditionary force , and the royal air force . | |
| 463 | defense | 1 | PERSON | his efforts have left a lasting impact on both the uk 's defense and educational landscapes . | |
| 464 | health | 1 | PROPERTY | stumbling from illness to illness , haldane 's own bad health was similar to king edward 's declining fortunes . | |
| 465 | iritis | 1 | UNKNOWN | he suffered from bad rheumatism , a stigmata in the eye and in 1909 , he had to take bed rest when going blind from iritis . | |
| 466 | omission | 1 | INSTANCE | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 467 | carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac | 1 | PERSON | lennard 's carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac 705 , directors are presumed to be the controlling minds of the company * | |
| 468 | governments | 1 | GOVERNMENT | he sat on several cases from canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the canadian constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the british north america act 1867 . | |
| 469 | sore head | 1 | HEAD | a fluent german-speaker , haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . | |
| 470 | evangelist james alexander haldane | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 471 | whisky | 1 | UNKNOWN | the germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . | |
| 472 | arms | 1 | LANGUAGE | the germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . | |
| 473 | students | 1 | PERSON | in 1904 , he was president of the edinburgh sir walter scott club and gave the toast to sir walter at the club 's annual dinner , addressing " the dedicated life " to a group of students on 10 january 1907 . | |
| 474 | motto suffer orders order | 1 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 475 | tempo | 1 | ACT | the mission was a failure because the germans would agree to slow the tempo of its warship construction only if britain promised to remain neutral if germany should become engaged in a war where " germany could not be said to be the aggressor . " | |
| 476 | man very | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 477 | goethe | 1 | PLACE | " the reign of relativity " combined haldane 's love of all things german expressed by goethe and his works , with the hegelian military-industrial complex . | |
| 478 | british westinghouse electric | 1 | AMOUNT | heilbut , symons & co v buckleton ukhl 2 , no damages for non-fraudulent misrepresentation , reversed by hedley byrne * british westinghouse electric and manufacturing co v underground | |
| 479 | humanism | 1 | ACTION | the philosophy of humanism and of other subjects . | |
| 480 | leadership | 1 | PERSON | dismissal from office following the shell crisis and the resignation of lord fisher , in may 1915 the liberals were obliged to form a coalition government with the conservatives who , under the leadership of bonar law , insisted on the removal of winston churchill as first lord of the admiralty and the dismissal of haldane . | |
| 481 | cuts | 1 | STATE | in 1900 , during the boer war , army expenditure was £86.8m , by 1910 ( a low point , after four years of cuts under the liberals ) it had dropped to £27.6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £29.4m . | |
| 482 | liberal imperialist wing | 1 | PERSON | haldane remained an ally of asquith and grey in the liberal imperialist wing of the party , followers of lord rosebery rather than of sir william harcourt . | |
| 483 | rot | 1 | PERSON | at a meeting with beatrice webb haldane told her he was disconsolate at the condition of the liberal party : " rot has set in there is no hope now but to be beaten and then reconstruct a new party " . | |
| 484 | balliol | 1 | PERSON | he had refused a place at balliol , but in nodding respect for the master and philosopher , t. h. green , he dedicated his essays in philosophical criticism to him . | |
| 485 | times | 1 | UNKNOWN | on haldane 's death the times described him as " one of the most powerful , subtle and encyclopaedic intellects ever devoted to the public service of his country " . | |
| 486 | connection | 1 | SET | unlike joseph chamberlain he thought there was no strong connection between fiscal and imperial unity . | |
| 487 | philosophers | 1 | PERSON | during his stay at göttingen he expanded an interest in the german philosophers , schopenhauer and hegel . | |
| 488 | shock | 1 | EVENT | at the 1892 general election , he received a shock when nearly defeated by the liberal unionist , walter hepburne-scott , master of polwarth . | |
| 489 | charm | 1 | PERSON | the king used his influence and charm to cultivate allies , bringing cross-party groups like the souls together in consensual amity . | |
| 490 | dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 491 | establishment | 1 | ACT | the main element of this was the establishment of the british expeditionary | |
| 492 | conference | 1 | ACT | another such conference took place at balmoral in september 1909 . | |
| 493 | max egremont | 1 | UNKNOWN | roy jenkins in his biography of asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and max egremont describes balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . | |
| 494 | paris | 1 | PLACE | the mission was a failure and tensions with berlin forced london to work more closely with paris . | |
| 495 | kaiser | 1 | PERSON | in october 1907 haldane was intimately involved with the negotiations at windsor with kaiser wilhelm ii . | |
| 496 | writings | 1 | EVENT | liberal imperialist focusing on his writings , haldane was passed over for political office , being the only one of his group left out in the wilderness . | |
| 497 | grandson | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 498 | lawyers | 1 | PERSON | haldane 's approach to the division of powers was heavily criticised by some academics and lawyers in canada , such as f. r. scott and chief justice bora laskin , as unduly favouring the provinces over the federal government and depriving it of the powers needed to deal with modern economic issues . | |
| 499 | longs | 1 | PERSON | haldane wrote , " one longs for rosebery had he been coming in to his right place at the head of affairs , we could have gone anywhere with confidence . | |
| 500 | reform agenda | 1 | ACTION | however , the armistice had taken all impetus out of the reform agenda . | |
| 501 | respiratory physiologist john scott haldane | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 502 | july edinburgh | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 503 | robert haldane makgill | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 504 | margot asquith | 1 | PERSON | at the time of the paisley by-election of january 1920 haldane was in the process of shifting his sympathies from liberal to labour , and was wrongly thought to have endorsed labour ( earning a rebuke from margot asquith , whom haldane thought " tiresome because she is ignorant " , to his aged mother ) . | |
| 505 | officers | 1 | PERSON | he founded the officers ' training corps . — lord birkenhead ( n.d. ) , idealism in international politics . | |
| 506 | essays | 1 | UNKNOWN | he had refused a place at balliol , but in nodding respect for the master and philosopher , t. h. green , he dedicated his essays in philosophical criticism to him . | |
| 507 | party friend | 1 | PERSON | in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson , sister of his liberal party friend , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel betsy in 1892 . | |
| 508 | göttingen university | 1 | INSTITUTION | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 509 | country | 1 | PLACE | on haldane 's death the times described him as " one of the most powerful , subtle and encyclopaedic intellects ever devoted to the public service of his country " . | |
| 510 | cross party groups | 1 | GROUP | ||
| 511 | property | 1 | PROPERTY | hegel 's aristocratic desire for law and order and defence of property against revolution had a mathematical symmetry . | |
| 512 | arms race | 1 | RACE | haldane mission of 1912 to berlin main article : haldane mission 1912 saw the unsuccessful attempt of the haldane mission , an effort to quell the friction between britain and germany arising because of their escalating naval arms race . | |
| 513 | law power | 1 | POWER | in doing so , he gave very restrictive readings to both the " peace , order and good government " power of the federal government , as well as the federal criminal law power . | |
| 514 | e.p. dutton | 1 | PERSON | e.p. dutton . | |
| 515 | affairs | 1 | ACTION | haldane wrote , " one longs for rosebery had he been coming in to his right place at the head of affairs , we could have gone anywhere with confidence . | |
| 516 | campbell bannerman | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 517 | lines | 1 | PERSON | his reforms re-oriented british military policy , revamped army organization along the lines of the german general staff , upgraded the training of the auxiliary forces , and created an efficient and economically run service . | |
| 518 | stay | 1 | PERSON | during his stay at göttingen he expanded an interest in the german philosophers , schopenhauer and hegel . | |
| 519 | war secretary | 1 | PERSON | asquith relied heavily on haldane as the previous war secretary and empowered him to carry out tasks at the war office on his behalf . | |
| 520 | complex | 1 | STRUCTURE | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 521 | west point | 1 | PLACE | haldane at west point sometime before the great war . | |
| 522 | commerce act | 1 | ACT | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 523 | cork street | 1 | PLACE | in 1881 haldane met h. h. asquith , and they soon became firm friends often meeting at the blue post public house on cork street . | |
| 524 | deal | 1 | SITUATION | a fluent german-speaker , haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . | |
| 525 | ronald munro ferguson | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 526 | lennard | 1 | PERSON | lennard 's carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac 705 , directors are presumed to be the controlling minds of the company * | |
| 527 | armistice | 1 | EVENT | however , the armistice had taken all impetus out of the reform agenda . | |
| 528 | bear | 1 | PERSON | a fluent german-speaker , haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . | |
| 529 | predecessors | 1 | GROUP | the military historian correlli barnett claimed that haldane had " all-round personal talents far exceeding those of his predecessors " as secretary of state for war and that he was " a man of first-class intellect and wide education " . | |
| 530 | campaign | 1 | OCCURRENCE | haldane 's removal was on account of the popularity of the press 's campaign relating to haldane 's alleged pro-german sympathies . | |
| 531 | warship construction | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | the mission was a failure because the germans would agree to slow the tempo of its warship construction only if britain promised to remain neutral if germany should become engaged in a war where " germany could not be said to be the aggressor . " | |
| 532 | advisory committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 533 | david lloyd george | 1 | PERSON | a radical liberal , haldane was also , according to historian martin pugh , one of the " best supporters " of david lloyd george 's " people 's budget . " | |
| 534 | equivalent | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | by 1905 he was earning £20,000 per annum at the bar ( equivalent to £2.7 million in 2023 ) . | |
| 535 | articles | 1 | UNKNOWN | the philosopher-politician wrote several articles for the advanced and progressive contemporary review . | |
| 536 | cigar smoker | 1 | PERSON | a lifelong walker and cigar smoker , he was diagnosed diabetic . | |
| 537 | representation | 1 | ACT | writings haldane co-translated the first english edition of schopenhauer 's the world as will and representation , published between 1883 and 1886 . | |
| 538 | conflicts | 1 | EVENT | cook v deeks ukpc 10 , no conflicts of interest for company directors * | |
| 539 | freedom | 1 | PERSON | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 540 | canadian | 1 | UNKNOWN | contribution to canadian constitutional law as lord chancellor , haldane was a member of the judicial committee of the privy council , at that time the court of last resort for the empire . | |
| 541 | liberal member | 1 | PERSON | in november 1885 , haldane was elected liberal member of parliament for haddingtonshire , a seat he held until 1911 . | |
| 542 | viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane | 1 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 543 | constitutional | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | during the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , haldane advised his friend and prime minister , asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from churchill and lloyd george . | |
| 544 | labour government | 1 | GOVERNMENT | when the labour government was formed by ramsay macdonald in early 1924 , haldane served once again as lord chancellor . | |
| 545 | windsor | 1 | PLACE | in october 1907 haldane was intimately involved with the negotiations at windsor with kaiser wilhelm ii . | |
| 546 | nothing | 1 | PERSON | lloyd george knows nothing for precedents and cares for no principles , but he has fire in his belly and that is what we want . " | |
| 547 | centre party | 1 | FORCE | he told rosebery " a sense of nation is working towards ...a great centre party . " | |
| 548 | colleague | 1 | PERSON | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 549 | commander in chief | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 550 | whig politician lord camperdown | 1 | PERSON | a cousin , the whig politician lord camperdown encouraged the young barrister into standing as a liberal at the general election of 1880 . | |
| 551 | estimates | 1 | PLACE | however , haldane 's first estimates reduced the army by 16,600 men and reduced expenditure by £2.6m to £28 million , as the liberals had been elected on a platform of retrenchment . | |
| 552 | classroom | 1 | ROOM | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 553 | earl loreburn | 1 | PERSON | asquith preceded by the earl loreburn succeeded by the lord buckmaster | |
| 554 | professor hermann lotze | 1 | PERSON | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 555 | f. r. scott | 1 | PERSON | haldane 's approach to the division of powers was heavily criticised by some academics and lawyers in canada , such as f. r. scott and chief justice bora laskin , as unduly favouring the provinces over the federal government and depriving it of the powers needed to deal with modern economic issues . | |
| 556 | commons | 1 | UNKNOWN | after the conservative government of arthur balfour fell in december 1905 there was some speculation that asquith and his allies haldane and grey would refuse to serve unless henry campbell-bannerman accepted a peerage , which would have left asquith as the real leader in the house of commons . | |
| 557 | shareholders | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 558 | emergencies | 1 | SITUATION | before haldane , there was only the defence committee of the cabinet , which met only in emergencies , and the colonial defence committee . | |
| 559 | tory power | 1 | POWER | rosebery admired haldane 's intellect , and the scotsman urged upon his friend , whom he had known since 1886 , an assault on tory power in the lords in 1894 . | |
| 560 | robert haldane | 1 | PERSON | background and education haldane was born at 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , the son of robert haldane and his wife mary elizabeth , daughter of richard burdon-sanderson . | |
| 561 | escutcheon quarterly | 1 | ACTION | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 562 | fluent | 1 | PERSON | a fluent german-speaker , haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . | |
| 563 | haldane family | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | papers and photographs of richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , and of the haldane family . , national library of scotland an autobiography . | |
| 564 | sir william haldane | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 565 | priority | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 566 | statesman | 1 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 567 | november prime minister ramsay macdonald | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 568 | kedleston | 1 | UNKNOWN | in office 22 january 1924 - 3 november 1924 prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the marquess curzon of kedleston succeeded by the marquess curzon of kedleston secretary of state for war | |
| 569 | blue post public house | 1 | PLACE | in 1881 haldane met h. h. asquith , and they soon became firm friends often meeting at the blue post public house on cork street . | |
| 570 | passage | 1 | PERSON | he became leader in the lords , responsible for the passage of the parliament act . | |
| 571 | training | 1 | UNKNOWN | force of 14 divisions ( the original plan was for 28 ) and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades at home , the officer training corps and the special reserve . | |
| 572 | firm friends | 1 | FUNCTION | in 1881 haldane met h. h. asquith , and they soon became firm friends often meeting at the blue post public house on cork street . | |
| 573 | empiricism | 1 | PERSON | the rising tide of new liberalism and moral realism was for haldane , hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . | |
| 574 | administration | 1 | ARRANGEMENT | he later joined the labour party and again served as lord chancellor in 1924 in the first labour administration . | |
| 575 | redemption | 1 | ACT | kreglinger v new patagonia meat & cold storage co ltd ukhl 1 , no clog on equity of redemption * | |
| 576 | ideas | 1 | ACT | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 577 | jobs | 1 | PROCESS | on 13 december 1905 , haldane was appointed secretary of state for war , but he may have been offered the jobs of attorney-general and home secretary . ( grey became foreign secretary ) . | |
| 578 | efficiency | 1 | QUALITY | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 579 | incident | 1 | EVENT | in march 1914 haldane 's successor at the war office , jack seely , resigned following the curragh incident . | |
| 580 | preface | 1 | ABILITY | haldane added the preface to leonard hobhouse 's the labour movement in 1893 . | |
| 581 | dinner | 1 | FOOD | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 582 | wilderness | 1 | INSTITUTION | liberal imperialist focusing on his writings , haldane was passed over for political office , being the only one of his group left out in the wilderness . | |
| 583 | end | 1 | UNKNOWN | at the end of his life lord haldane was elected chancellor of the university of st andrews in june 1928 . | |
| 584 | boer war | 1 | EVENT | in 1900 , during the boer war , army expenditure was £86.8m , by 1910 ( a low point , after four years of cuts under the liberals ) it had dropped to £27.6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £29.4m . | |
| 585 | berlin main article | 1 | ARTICLE | haldane mission of 1912 to berlin main article : haldane mission 1912 saw the unsuccessful attempt of the haldane mission , an effort to quell the friction between britain and germany arising because of their escalating naval arms race . | |
| 586 | anything | 1 | ANYTHING | neither the former prime minister arthur balfour , haldane 's closest friend amongst the conservatives , nor asquith , the liberal prime minister of the day and haldane 's closest political ally and friend for over 30 years , did anything to resist bonar law 's demands . | |
| 587 | expense | 1 | ACT | he gave the decision for the judicial committee in several of those cases , and showed a marked tendency to favour the provincial powers at the expense of the federal government . | |
| 588 | thing | 1 | ENTITY | but it seems now as if this were not to be and we have to do the only thing we can do , which is to resolutely follow a plan of concerted action " . | |
| 589 | relugas compact | 1 | AGREEMENT | however , the plot ( called " the relugas compact " after grey 's | |
| 590 | case | 1 | STUDY | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 591 | popularity | 1 | ACT | haldane 's removal was on account of the popularity of the press 's campaign relating to haldane 's alleged pro-german sympathies . | |
| 592 | son | 1 | PERSON | background and education haldane was born at 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , the son of robert haldane and his wife mary elizabeth , daughter of richard burdon-sanderson . | |
| 593 | fair prices act | 1 | ACT | for instance , in the case of in re the board of commerce act , 1919 , and the combines and fair prices act , he gave the decision striking down federal legislation which attempted to regulate the economy , challenging the legality of the canadian legislature . | |
| 594 | discussion club | 1 | INSTITUTION | club , a political dining and discussion club formed in 1879 . | |
| 595 | party liberal | 1 | PERSON | auchterarder , scotland political party liberal ( 1879-1923 ) labour ( 1923-1928 ) | |
| 596 | perspective | 1 | SOUND | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 597 | kreglinger v new patagonia meat | 1 | MEAT | kreglinger v new patagonia meat & cold storage co ltd ukhl 1 , no clog on equity of redemption * | |
| 598 | united kingdom | 1 | PLACE | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 599 | constraints | 1 | CONDITION | despite the budgetary constraints , haldane implemented a wide-ranging set of reforms of the army , aimed at preparing the army for an imperial war but with the more likely ( and secret ) task of a european war . | |
| 600 | nation | 1 | PERSON | he told rosebery " a sense of nation is working towards ...a great centre party . " | |
| 601 | labour administration | 1 | ARRANGEMENT | he later joined the labour party and again served as lord chancellor in 1924 in the first labour administration . | |
| 602 | import | 1 | FORM | but the import was the berlin-baghdad railway which germany was hoping to construct with british approval . | |
| 603 | martin | 1 | PERSON | a radical liberal , haldane was also , according to historian martin pugh , one of the " best supporters " of david lloyd george 's " people 's budget . " | |
| 604 | coronation honours list | 1 | ACT | on 11 august 1902 , haldane was admitted to the privy council , following an announcement of the king 's intention to make the appointment in the 1902 coronation honours list , published in june that year . | |
| 605 | major general haig | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 606 | governance | 1 | PROCESS | as president of the institute of public administration , he was a leading intellectual on the philosophy of governance . | |
| 607 | relationship | 1 | RELATIONSHIP | to the detriment of their relationship , asquith gave no personal expression to haldane . | |
| 608 | archerfield | 1 | UNKNOWN | on promoting churchill to first lord of the admiralty , asquith advised him to seek haldane 's advice at a meeting held at archerfield , north berwick . | |
| 609 | lord loreburn | 1 | PERSON | on lord loreburn 's retirement in june 1912 , haldane succeeded him as lord chancellor , making a self-deprecating speech as to his abilities as a legal expert . | |
| 610 | provinces | 1 | ENTITY | haldane 's approach to the division of powers was heavily criticised by some academics and lawyers in canada , such as f. r. scott and chief justice bora laskin , as unduly favouring the provinces over the federal government and depriving it of the powers needed to deal with modern economic issues . | |
| 611 | year haldane | 1 | PERSON | although not elected that year haldane joined the eighty | |
| 612 | librarian | 1 | PERSON | amongst his early friends was edmund gosse , the librarian of the house of lords library . | |
| 613 | second | 1 | EVENT | he was accredited as an efficient bureaucratic leader , notably founding the territorial army in a second memorandum . | |
| 614 | monarch | 1 | PERSON | in office 10 june 1912 - 25 may 1915 monarch george v prime minister h. h. | |
| 615 | lord parmoor | 1 | PERSON | he was also joint leader of the labour peers with lord parmoor . | |
| 616 | risk | 1 | STATEMENT | that carried an unacceptable risk encouraging germany to go to war with france or russia and taking control of the continent . | |
| 617 | historicist | 1 | PERSON | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 618 | gifford lectures | 1 | PERSON | haldane published " the pathway to reality " , based on the gifford lectures which he had delivered at the university of st andrews . | |
| 619 | miss valentine ferguson | 1 | PERSON | haldane remained a lifelong bachelor after his fiancée , miss valentine ferguson , broke off their engagement . | |
| 620 | health problems | 1 | EVENT | portrait by philip de lászló , 1928 haldane had health problems all his life . | |
| 621 | wife mary elizabeth | 1 | PERSON | background and education haldane was born at 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , the son of robert haldane and his wife mary elizabeth , daughter of richard burdon-sanderson . | |
| 622 | nocton v lord ashburton ac | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 623 | will | 1 | UNKNOWN | writings haldane co-translated the first english edition of schopenhauer 's the world as will and representation , published between 1883 and 1886 . | |
| 624 | aircraft industry | 1 | INSTITUTION | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 625 | criticism | 1 | ACT | he had refused a place at balliol , but in nodding respect for the master and philosopher , t. h. green , he dedicated his essays in philosophical criticism to him . | |
| 626 | secretaries | 1 | EVENT | walter reid believed haldane to be the greatest of the secretaries for war . | |
| 627 | fortunes | 1 | STATE | stumbling from illness to illness , haldane 's own bad health was similar to king edward 's declining fortunes . | |
| 628 | impact | 1 | ACTION | his efforts have left a lasting impact on both the uk 's defense and educational landscapes . | |
| 629 | data | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | the rising tide of new liberalism and moral realism was for haldane , hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . | |
| 630 | viscount cave leader | 1 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 631 | decentralisation | 1 | UNKNOWN | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 632 | damages | 1 | EVENT | heilbut , symons & co v buckleton ukhl 2 , no damages for non-fraudulent misrepresentation , reversed by hedley byrne * british westinghouse electric and manufacturing co v underground | |
| 633 | retirement | 1 | ACT | on lord loreburn 's retirement in june 1912 , haldane succeeded him as lord chancellor , making a self-deprecating speech as to his abilities as a legal expert . | |
| 634 | researchers | 1 | PERSON | this work led to the idea that decisions about what to spend research funds on should be made by researchers rather than politicians being named the haldane principle . | |
| 635 | sentimentality | 1 | ACT | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 636 | november lord | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 637 | junior | 1 | PERSON | davey in 1882 as the junior . | |
| 638 | t. h. green | 1 | PERSON | he had refused a place at balliol , but in nodding respect for the master and philosopher , t. h. green , he dedicated his essays in philosophical criticism to him . | |
| 639 | aristotelian society | 1 | INSTITUTION | from 1907 to 1908 , he was president of the aristotelian society . | |
| 640 | height | 1 | QUALITY | perhaps his greatest speech on education was made in house of lords on 12 july 1916 , at the height of the terrible slaughter on the western front . | |
| 641 | precept | 1 | RULE | the rising tide of new liberalism and moral realism was for haldane , hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . | |
| 642 | sister | 1 | PERSON | in 1888 , he courted emma valentine ferguson , sister of his liberal party friend , ronald munro-ferguson ; she broke off the engagement and subsequently lampooned him in her novel betsy in 1892 . | |
| 643 | lord rosebery | 1 | PERSON | haldane remained an ally of asquith and grey in the liberal imperialist wing of the party , followers of lord rosebery rather than of sir william harcourt . | |
| 644 | eighty club | 1 | INSTITUTION | ||
| 645 | realism | 1 | INSTANCE | the rising tide of new liberalism and moral realism was for haldane , hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . | |
| 646 | coinage | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | in speech fluent and even infinite he yielded to no living idealist in the easy coinage of sentimental phraseology . | |
| 647 | love | 1 | PERSON | " the reign of relativity " combined haldane 's love of all things german expressed by goethe and his works , with the hegelian military-industrial complex . | |
| 648 | great war | 1 | EVENT | haldane at west point sometime before the great war . | |
| 649 | language | 1 | LANGUAGE | but he none the less prepared himself , and the empire , to talk when the time came with his spiritual friends in language not in the least spiritual . | |
| 650 | experience | 1 | COGNITIVE STATE | human experience : | |
| 651 | people | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | a radical liberal , haldane was also , according to historian martin pugh , one of the " best supporters " of david lloyd george 's " people 's budget . " | |
| 652 | retrenchment | 1 | STUDY | however , haldane 's first estimates reduced the army by 16,600 men and reduced expenditure by £2.6m to £28 million , as the liberals had been elected on a platform of retrenchment . | |
| 653 | paisley by election | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 654 | development | 1 | SUBSTANCE | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 655 | injustice | 1 | POWER | roy jenkins in his biography of asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and max egremont describes balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . | |
| 656 | honour | 1 | UNKNOWN | he was also involved in the founding of imperial college in 1907 and in his honour the university contained the haldane recreational library , which now forms part of the main library collection . | |
| 657 | institutions | 1 | INSTITUTION | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 658 | arthur balfour | 1 | PERSON | after the conservative government of arthur balfour fell in december 1905 there was some speculation that asquith and his allies haldane and grey would refuse to serve unless henry campbell-bannerman accepted a peerage , which would have left asquith as the real leader in the house of commons . | |
| 659 | protection | 1 | ACT | he opposed any attempt to protection of british trade . | |
| 660 | fire | 1 | FIRE | lloyd george knows nothing for precedents and cares for no principles , but he has fire in his belly and that is what we want . " | |
| 661 | king edward | 1 | PERSON | stumbling from illness to illness , haldane 's own bad health was similar to king edward 's declining fortunes . | |
| 662 | lodge | 1 | SEQUENCE | scottish lodge where the men met ) collapsed when asquith agreed to serve as chancellor of the exchequer under campbell-bannerman . | |
| 663 | supporters | 1 | PERSON | a radical liberal , haldane was also , according to historian martin pugh , one of the " best supporters " of david lloyd george 's " people 's budget . " | |
| 664 | general aylmer haldane | 1 | PERSON | following his departure from the government haldane went to the front to meet his old friend general haig , and his cousin , general aylmer haldane , but he was exhausted on being ejected from cabinet . | |
| 665 | tide | 1 | TENDENCY | the rising tide of new liberalism and moral realism was for haldane , hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . | |
| 666 | talents | 1 | EVENT | the military historian correlli barnett claimed that haldane had " all-round personal talents far exceeding those of his predecessors " as secretary of state for war and that he was " a man of first-class intellect and wide education " . | |
| 667 | polwarth | 1 | UNKNOWN | at the 1892 general election , he received a shock when nearly defeated by the liberal unionist , walter hepburne-scott , master of polwarth . | |
| 668 | approach | 1 | ACT | haldane 's approach to the division of powers was heavily criticised by some academics and lawyers in canada , such as f. r. scott and chief justice bora laskin , as unduly favouring the provinces over the federal government and depriving it of the powers needed to deal with modern economic issues . | |
| 669 | north berwick | 1 | PLACE | on promoting churchill to first lord of the admiralty , asquith advised him to seek haldane 's advice at a meeting held at archerfield , north berwick . | |
| 670 | first world war haldane | 1 | PERSON | following the outbreak of the first world war haldane was falsely accused of pro-german sympathies , in july 1914 , for hosting albert ballin , a german shipping magnate and unofficial mediator between germany and britain . | |
| 671 | albert grey committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | they were founders of the albert grey committee , named after albert grey , regularly discussing burning social issues , such as education . | |
| 672 | spiritual | 1 | PERSON | he was harried in particular by beaverbrook 's daily express , which gave great publicity to the claim by professor onkel of heidelberg that he had said " germany was his spiritual home " . | |
| 673 | founders | 1 | PERSON | they were founders of the albert grey committee , named after albert grey , regularly discussing burning social issues , such as education . | |
| 674 | structure | 1 | STRUCTURE | a study of its structure . | |
| 675 | effects | 1 | EFFECT | the effects of some of these decisions have subsequently been modified by later decisions of the judicial committee and the supreme court of canada , but they have had the long-term effect of recognising substantial provincial powers . | |
| 676 | richard haldane haldane | 1 | PERSON | education university of göttingen university of edinburgh profession barrister 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , birthplace of richard haldane haldane caricatured by spy in vanity fair , 1896 richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , kt , om , pc , frs , fsa , fba ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 30 july 1856 - 19 august 1928 ) was a scottish lawyer , philosopher , influential liberal and later labour politician and statesman . | |
| 677 | german general staff | 1 | GOVERNMENT | his reforms re-oriented british military policy , revamped army organization along the lines of the german general staff , upgraded the training of the auxiliary forces , and created an efficient and economically run service . | |
| 678 | announcement | 1 | EVENT | on 11 august 1902 , haldane was admitted to the privy council , following an announcement of the king 's intention to make the appointment in the 1902 coronation honours list , published in june that year . | |
| 679 | responsibility | 1 | RESPONSIBILITY | rather than appoint a successor , asquith decided to take over responsibility for the war office directly himself . | |
| 680 | euston | 1 | PERSON | haldane was responsible for drafting the london university act 1926 , purchasing properties in euston . | |
| 681 | condition | 1 | CONDITION | at a meeting with beatrice webb haldane told her he was disconsolate at the condition of the liberal party : " rot has set in there is no hope now but to be beaten and then reconstruct a new party " . | |
| 682 | albert einstein | 1 | PERSON | being a fluent german speaker , ascetic philosopher and atheist , he played host to albert einstein , when he visited london in 1921 . | |
| 683 | articles club | 1 | INSTITUTION | haldane joined friends at the articles club , including asquith and grey . | |
| 684 | contract | 1 | PERSON | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 685 | intention | 1 | PROCESS | on 11 august 1902 , haldane was admitted to the privy council , following an announcement of the king 's intention to make the appointment in the 1902 coronation honours list , published in june that year . | |
| 686 | army reform | 1 | AMOUNT | army reform and other addresses ( 1907 ) | |
| 687 | j. b. s. haldane | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 688 | fabian campaigners sidney | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 689 | arms caption | 1 | CONDITION | arms caption : | |
| 690 | wing | 1 | PERSON | haldane became firmly ensconced in the imperialist wing of liberalism , led by sir edward grey . | |
| 691 | age | 1 | PROPERTY | membership was restricted to liberals under the age of forty . | |
| 692 | solicitor general | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 693 | frs | 1 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 694 | claim | 1 | AMOUNT | he was harried in particular by beaverbrook 's daily express , which gave great publicity to the claim by professor onkel of heidelberg that he had said " germany was his spiritual home " . | |
| 695 | thinker | 1 | PERSON | haldane was a deep thinker , an unusual breed : a philosopher-politician . | |
| 696 | co v buckleton ukhl | 1 | UNKNOWN | heilbut , symons & co v buckleton ukhl 2 , no damages for non-fraudulent misrepresentation , reversed by hedley byrne * british westinghouse electric and manufacturing co v underground | |
| 697 | parliament act | 1 | ACT | he became leader in the lords , responsible for the passage of the parliament act . | |
| 698 | government haldane | 1 | PERSON | following his departure from the government haldane went to the front to meet his old friend general haig , and his cousin , general aylmer haldane , but he was exhausted on being ejected from cabinet . | |
| 699 | thistle order | 1 | PERSON | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 700 | jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac | 1 | PERSON | company limited and others v the king ukpc 27 * macedo v stroud ac 330 , property transfer * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac 709 , interference with contractual relations * | |
| 701 | implications | 1 | PERSON | 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 . | |
| 702 | king ukpc | 1 | PERSON | company limited and others v the king ukpc 27 * macedo v stroud ac 330 , property transfer * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac 709 , interference with contractual relations * | |
| 703 | socialism | 1 | GROUP | webb remarked , " he had pathos in his personality , a successful lawyer tinged with socialism . " | |
| 704 | richard burdon sanderson | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 705 | democracy | 1 | QUALITY | the future of democracy ( 1918 ) . | |
| 706 | pleadings | 1 | ACT | haldane 's practice was a specialism in conveyancing ; a particular skill for pleadings at appeal and tribunal cases , bringing cases to the privy council and house of lords . | |
| 707 | pensions | 1 | INSTANCE | in march 1914 effective expenditure on the army , after allowing for increased pensions and £1m set aside for military aviation , was still less than in 1907-8 , and £2m less than in 1905-6 ( despite a 20 % rise in prices since then ) . | |
| 708 | departure | 1 | ACT | following his departure from the government haldane went to the front to meet his old friend general haig , and his cousin , general aylmer haldane , but he was exhausted on being ejected from cabinet . | |
| 709 | article | 1 | ARTICLE | in the 1890 article " the eight hours question " | |
| 710 | home secretary | 1 | PERSON | on 13 december 1905 , haldane was appointed secretary of state for war , but he may have been offered the jobs of attorney-general and home secretary . ( grey became foreign secretary ) . | |
| 711 | stance | 1 | PROPERTY | during the constitutional and budget crisis of 1909-11 , haldane advised his friend and prime minister , asquith on the legal niceties of his stance towards the monarch , who was outraged at the firebrand speeches from churchill and lloyd george . | |
| 712 | edition | 1 | PERSON | writings haldane co-translated the first english edition of schopenhauer 's the world as will and representation , published between 1883 and 1886 . | |
| 713 | emperor | 1 | PERSON | the germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . | |
| 714 | future | 1 | VALUE | the future of democracy ( 1918 ) . | |
| 715 | french | 1 | PLACE | haldane was persuaded by fellow liberal imperialist edward grey to begin planning for a continental war in support of the french against the germans . | |
| 716 | toronto electric commissioners v. snider | 1 | PERSON | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 717 | minister | 1 | HUMAN ROLE | in office 10 june 1912 - 25 may 1915 monarch george v prime minister h. h. | |
| 718 | formula | 1 | EVENT | army expenditure was determined according to a formula devised by the esher committee . | |
| 719 | nonsense | 1 | PURPOSE | roy jenkins in his biography of asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and max egremont describes balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . | |
| 720 | philip de lászló | 1 | PERSON | portrait by philip de lászló , 1928 haldane had health problems all his life . | |
| 721 | family butler | 1 | PERSON | leo amery said he looked like " the old-fashioned family butler " . | |
| 722 | ruin | 1 | CONDITION | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 723 | action | 1 | ACTION | but it seems now as if this were not to be and we have to do the only thing we can do , which is to resolutely follow a plan of concerted action " . | |
| 724 | lurch | 1 | PERSON | we never knew when he would retire and leave us in the lurch " . | |
| 725 | element | 1 | ELEMENT | the main element of this was the establishment of the british expeditionary | |
| 726 | supreme court | 1 | PERSON | the effects of some of these decisions have subsequently been modified by later decisions of the judicial committee and the supreme court of canada , but they have had the long-term effect of recognising substantial provincial powers . | |
| 727 | soldier | 1 | UNKNOWN | j. a . spender later wrote of how haldane got the best work out of an able but verbally-incoherent soldier ( thought to refer to haig ) by not scoring verbal points off him , as many politicians would have done . | |
| 728 | brother | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 729 | security | 1 | FORCE | a fluent german-speaker , haldane was lulled into a false sense of security believing ' like a bear with a sore head ' that he had won a great deal . | |
| 730 | viscount cave | 1 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 731 | conduct | 1 | ACT | the conduct of life , and other addresses . | |
| 732 | recommendations | 1 | EVENT | esher had recommended the setting up of an army council and the abolition of the post of commander-in-chief , but few of his recommendations had been implemented before the change of government in december 1905 . | |
| 733 | creed | 1 | PERSON | in october 1888 , " the liberal creed " was published summarising his belief in the direction of new liberalism . | |
| 734 | bed rest | 1 | STATE | he suffered from bad rheumatism , a stigmata in the eye and in 1909 , he had to take bed rest when going blind from iritis . | |
| 735 | scholar | 1 | PERSON | he gained a first and ma at university of edinburgh where he received first-class honours in philosophy and was gray scholar and ferguson scholar . | |
| 736 | machinery | 1 | GROUP | in december 1918 , lloyd george appointed haldane chairman of ' the machinery of government ' committee . | |
| 737 | publicity | 1 | PERSON | he was harried in particular by beaverbrook 's daily express , which gave great publicity to the claim by professor onkel of heidelberg that he had said " germany was his spiritual home " . | |
| 738 | seat | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | in november 1885 , haldane was elected liberal member of parliament for haddingtonshire , a seat he held until 1911 . | |
| 739 | webbs | 1 | UNKNOWN | in 1895 , haldane helped the webbs found the london school of economics . | |
| 740 | british north america act | 1 | ACT | he sat on several cases from canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the canadian constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the british north america act 1867 . | |
| 741 | annual american seminar | 1 | GROUP | he made some famous speeches at toynbee hall for the annual american seminar . | |
| 742 | gift | 1 | PERSON | having been awarded the order of merit in 1915 , in the personal gift of george v , he wrote a memorandum of events , 1906-15 , to defend his reputation . | |
| 743 | proof | 1 | FORCE | the rising tide of new liberalism and moral realism was for haldane , hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . | |
| 744 | purist | 1 | PERSON | hegel was a purist : his work attempted to keep science and philosophy apart . | |
| 745 | days | 1 | PERIOD | those reforms enabled britain to send some 120,000 men to france in fifteen days in august 1914 . | |
| 746 | interplay | 1 | RELATIONSHIP | he sat on several cases from canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the canadian constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the british north america act 1867 . | |
| 747 | coefficients | 1 | UNKNOWN | haldane was a member of the coefficients dining club of social reformers set up in 1902 by the fabian campaigners | |
| 748 | mother | 1 | PERSON | at the time of the paisley by-election of january 1920 haldane was in the process of shifting his sympathies from liberal to labour , and was wrongly thought to have endorsed labour ( earning a rebuke from margot asquith , whom haldane thought " tiresome because she is ignorant " , to his aged mother ) . | |
| 749 | haldane recreational library | 1 | PLACE | he was also involved in the founding of imperial college in 1907 and in his honour the university contained the haldane recreational library , which now forms part of the main library collection . | |
| 750 | lords lord temporal hereditary | 1 | PERSON | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 751 | labour candidates | 1 | AMOUNT | it was not until the general election of 1923 that haldane formally sided with labour , and made several speeches on behalf of labour candidates . | |
| 752 | professors | 1 | UNKNOWN | he had in fact said that about professor hermann lotze 's classroom at göttingen at a dinner party given by mrs humphry ward in april 1913 to enable him to meet some german professors during his mission . | |
| 753 | education act | 1 | ACT | he was largely responsible for the cross-party support for balfour 's education act 1902 . | |
| 754 | budget | 1 | DOCUMENT PART | a radical liberal , haldane was also , according to historian martin pugh , one of the " best supporters " of david lloyd george 's " people 's budget . " | |
| 755 | menteith | 1 | UNKNOWN | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 756 | queen | 1 | PERSON | by 1890 he had become a queen 's counsel . | |
| 757 | chief justice bora laskin | 1 | PERSON | haldane 's approach to the division of powers was heavily criticised by some academics and lawyers in canada , such as f. r. scott and chief justice bora laskin , as unduly favouring the provinces over the federal government and depriving it of the powers needed to deal with modern economic issues . | |
| 758 | kedleston secretary | 1 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 3 november 1924 prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the marquess curzon of kedleston succeeded by the marquess curzon of kedleston secretary of state for war | |
| 759 | authority | 1 | STATUS | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 760 | terms | 1 | TERM | by 1914 britain spent 3.4 % of national income on defence , little more in absolute terms than austria-hungary 's 6.1 % . | |
| 761 | stigmata | 1 | UNKNOWN | he suffered from bad rheumatism , a stigmata in the eye and in 1909 , he had to take bed rest when going blind from iritis . | |
| 762 | viscountcy | 1 | UNKNOWN | the viscountcy became extinct on his death . | |
| 763 | intellects | 1 | FORM | on haldane 's death the times described him as " one of the most powerful , subtle and encyclopaedic intellects ever devoted to the public service of his country " . | |
| 764 | esher | 1 | PERSON | army expenditure was determined according to a formula devised by the esher committee . | |
| 765 | woman | 1 | PERSON | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 766 | cloan | 1 | UNKNOWN | two elections ensued , one in january and another in december 1910 , before in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as viscount haldane , of cloan in the county of perth . | |
| 767 | relations | 1 | RELATION | company limited and others v the king ukpc 27 * macedo v stroud ac 330 , property transfer * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac 709 , interference with contractual relations * | |
| 768 | effort | 1 | ACTION | haldane mission of 1912 to berlin main article : haldane mission 1912 saw the unsuccessful attempt of the haldane mission , an effort to quell the friction between britain and germany arising because of their escalating naval arms race . | |
| 769 | phraseology | 1 | STUDY | in speech fluent and even infinite he yielded to no living idealist in the easy coinage of sentimental phraseology . | |
| 770 | upstairs | 1 | UNKNOWN | haldane had suggested involving the king at balmoral to ' kick cb upstairs ' . | |
| 771 | solution | 1 | OCCURRENCE | when the irish war of independence broke out in 1919 , haldane was one of the first british politicians to argue that the solution lay in compromise rather than force . | |
| 772 | imperial college | 1 | INSTITUTION | beyond his military contributions , haldane was a significant figure in education , contributing to the founding of institutions such as imperial college london and the london school of economics . | |
| 773 | friend general haig | 1 | PERSON | following his departure from the government haldane went to the front to meet his old friend general haig , and his cousin , general aylmer haldane , but he was exhausted on being ejected from cabinet . | |
| 774 | life portrait | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 775 | defence committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | before haldane , there was only the defence committee of the cabinet , which met only in emergencies , and the colonial defence committee . | |
| 776 | october haldane | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 777 | memorandum | 1 | NUMBER | usually critical , rosebery remarked on haldane 's interest in philosophy , declaring : " i have read his secret memorandum , and that was enough " . | |
| 778 | room | 1 | ROOM | osbert sitwell described him as " entering a room with the air of a whole procession " . | |
| 779 | new square chambers | 1 | PLACE | he was taken on at 5 new square chambers by horace | |
| 780 | sections | 1 | ACT | he sat on several cases from canada dealing with the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments under the canadian constitution , particularly the interplay between sections 91 and 92 of the british north america act 1867 . | |
| 781 | disputes | 1 | DISPUTE | similarly , in toronto electric commissioners v. snider , lord haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes , holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace , order and good government power , nor the federal trade and commerce power . | |
| 782 | forces | 1 | UNKNOWN | his reforms re-oriented british military policy , revamped army organization along the lines of the german general staff , upgraded the training of the auxiliary forces , and created an efficient and economically run service . | |
| 783 | hope | 1 | EVENT | december 1885 - 27 march 1911 preceded by hugo charteris succeeded by john hope personal details born ( 1856-07-30) 30 july 1856 edinburgh , scotland died 19 | |
| 784 | coat | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 785 | john hope personal details born | 1 | PERSON | december 1885 - 27 march 1911 preceded by hugo charteris succeeded by john hope personal details born ( 1856-07-30) 30 july 1856 edinburgh , scotland died 19 | |
| 786 | jack seely | 1 | PERSON | in march 1914 haldane 's successor at the war office , jack seely , resigned following the curragh incident . | |
| 787 | desire | 1 | EVENT | hegel 's aristocratic desire for law and order and defence of property against revolution had a mathematical symmetry . | |
| 788 | abilities | 1 | UNKNOWN | on lord loreburn 's retirement in june 1912 , haldane succeeded him as lord chancellor , making a self-deprecating speech as to his abilities as a legal expert . | |
| 789 | point | 1 | PLACE | in 1900 , during the boer war , army expenditure was £86.8m , by 1910 ( a low point , after four years of cuts under the liberals ) it had dropped to £27.6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £29.4m . | |
| 790 | advances | 1 | EVENT | from a pan-european perspective he analysed the german character and economic advances towards militarism . | |
| 791 | welter | 1 | FORCE | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 792 | roy jenkins | 1 | PERSON | roy jenkins in his biography of asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and max egremont describes balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . | |
| 793 | army management | 1 | ARRANGEMENT | in 1907 and 1908 , haldane passed far-reaching reforms to army management . | |
| 794 | writings haldane | 1 | PERSON | writings haldane co-translated the first english edition of schopenhauer 's the world as will and representation , published between 1883 and 1886 . | |
| 795 | leo amery | 1 | PERSON | leo amery said he looked like " the old-fashioned family butler " . | |
| 796 | fba | 1 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 797 | readings | 1 | PROPERTY | in doing so , he gave very restrictive readings to both the " peace , order and good government " power of the federal government , as well as the federal criminal law power . | |
| 798 | idealist | 1 | PERSON | in speech fluent and even infinite he yielded to no living idealist in the easy coinage of sentimental phraseology . | |
| 799 | principles | 1 | NATURE | the germanophile and linguist was thrilled to be summoned at 1 am to talk with the emperor over whisky on arms reduction principles . | |
| 800 | international politics | 1 | ACT | he founded the officers ' training corps . — lord birkenhead ( n.d. ) , idealism in international politics . | |
| 801 | bordure | 1 | UNKNOWN | coat of arms of richard haldane , 1st viscount haldane crest an eagle 's head erased or . escutcheon quarterly 1st & 4th argent a saltire engrailed sable ( haldane ) ; 2nd argent a saltire between four roses gules ( lennox ) ; 3rd or a bend chequy sable & argent ( menteith ) ; in the centre of the quarters a crescent sable , all within a bordure or . motto suffer orders order of the thistle order of merit ( not pictured ) | |
| 802 | influence | 1 | ELEMENT | the king used his influence and charm to cultivate allies , bringing cross-party groups like the souls together in consensual amity . | |
| 803 | osbert sitwell | 1 | PERSON | osbert sitwell described him as " entering a room with the air of a whole procession " . | |
| 804 | confidence | 1 | EMOTION | haldane wrote , " one longs for rosebery had he been coming in to his right place at the head of affairs , we could have gone anywhere with confidence . | |
| 805 | capt e.r householder | 1 | PERSON | haldane leaving reviewing grounds with clarence page townsley : capt e.r householder ; capt e.r. gregory army reforms main article : haldane reforms haldane set up the imperial general staff . | |
| 806 | change | 1 | UNKNOWN | esher had recommended the setting up of an army council and the abolition of the post of commander-in-chief , but few of his recommendations had been implemented before the change of government in december 1905 . | |
| 807 | duty | 1 | QUALITY | sinclair v brougham ac 398 , priority for depositors over shareholders * nocton v lord ashburton ac 932 , fiduciary duty of giving non-negligent advice * dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge & co ltd ukhl 1 , no right to enforce resale price maintenance without a contract * | |
| 808 | new york | 1 | PLACE | new york : e. p. dutton and co. 1904 . | |
| 809 | insane | 1 | UNKNOWN | emma ferguson died insane in 1897 . | |
| 810 | bencher | 1 | PERSON | he became a bencher at lincoln 's inn in 1893 . | |
| 811 | irish war | 1 | EVENT | when the irish war of independence broke out in 1919 , haldane was one of the first british politicians to argue that the solution lay in compromise rather than force . | |
| 812 | principle | 1 | PERSON | he is versed in precedents , acts on principle , and knows how and when to compromise . | |
| 813 | jenkins | 1 | PERSON | roy jenkins in his biography of asquith describes the charges as " absolute nonsense " and max egremont describes balfour as " knowing the injustice behind the charges " and " being privately indignant " . | |
| 814 | acts | 1 | ACT | he is versed in precedents , acts on principle , and knows how and when to compromise . | |
| 815 | liberal unionist | 1 | PERSON | at the 1892 general election , he received a shock when nearly defeated by the liberal unionist , walter hepburne-scott , master of polwarth . | |
| 816 | minds | 1 | FIGURE | lennard 's carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac 705 , directors are presumed to be the controlling minds of the company * | |
| 817 | author elizabeth haldane | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 818 | planning | 1 | UNKNOWN | the leaders of the party were exasperated and believed rosebery to lack planning and direction . | |
| 819 | cook v deeks ukpc | 1 | PERSON | cook v deeks ukpc 10 , no conflicts of interest for company directors * | |
| 820 | venetia stanley | 1 | PERSON | jenkins describes the omission as " the most uncharacteristic fault of asquith 's whole career " attributing it to asquith suffering the " indescribable blow " of the surprise announcement of the engagement of the woman he loved , venetia stanley , to one of his government ministers , edwin montagu . | |
| 821 | committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | they were founders of the albert grey committee , named after albert grey , regularly discussing burning social issues , such as education . | |
| 822 | misrepresentation | 1 | INSTANCE | heilbut , symons & co v buckleton ukhl 2 , no damages for non-fraudulent misrepresentation , reversed by hedley byrne * british westinghouse electric and manufacturing co v underground | |
| 823 | behaviour | 1 | UNKNOWN | the rising tide of new liberalism and moral realism was for haldane , hegel 's philological precept to improve behaviour , using the empiricism of scientific data as a proof . | |
| 824 | macedo v stroud ac | 1 | PERSON | company limited and others v the king ukpc 27 * macedo v stroud ac 330 , property transfer * jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac 709 , interference with contractual relations * | |
| 825 | joseph chamberlain | 1 | PERSON | unlike joseph chamberlain he thought there was no strong connection between fiscal and imperial unity . | |
| 826 | main article | 1 | ARTICLE | haldane leaving reviewing grounds with clarence page townsley : capt e.r householder ; capt e.r. gregory army reforms main article : haldane reforms haldane set up the imperial general staff . | |
| 827 | professor onkel | 1 | UNKNOWN | he was harried in particular by beaverbrook 's daily express , which gave great publicity to the claim by professor onkel of heidelberg that he had said " germany was his spiritual home " . | |
| 828 | control | 1 | GROUP | that carried an unacceptable risk encouraging germany to go to war with france or russia and taking control of the continent . | |
| 829 | prime minister | 1 | HUMAN ROLE | in office 10 june 1912 - 25 may 1915 monarch george v prime minister h. h. | |
| 830 | stoughton | 1 | PERSON | london : hodder and stoughton . 1929 . | |
| 831 | class | 1 | UNKNOWN | he gained a first and ma at university of edinburgh where he received first class honours in philosophy and was gray scholar and ferguson scholar . | |
| 832 | latter | 1 | UNKNOWN | " the latter is a large , fat man " was haig 's initial impression of a dignified but portly demeanour . | |
| 833 | subjects | 1 | EVENT | the philosophy of humanism and of other subjects . | |
| 834 | e. p. dutton | 1 | PERSON | new york : e. p. dutton and co. 1904 . | |
| 835 | out | 1 | WORD | liberal imperialist focusing on his writings , haldane was passed over for political office , being the only one of his group left out in the wilderness . | |
| 836 | feature | 1 | PERSON | the philosophy of ' national efficiency ' was central feature of the hegelian complex , and the ideas of schopenhauer , he had learnt on the continent , that accentuated freedom and decentralisation from an historicist 's perspective . | |
| 837 | fsa | 1 | PERSON | british politician and judge the right honourable the viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane in 1919 lord chancellor | |
| 838 | russia | 1 | PLACE | that carried an unacceptable risk encouraging germany to go to war with france or russia and taking control of the continent . | |
| 839 | army regulations | 1 | UNKNOWN | having worked on the army regulations of 1909 , haig applauded " a most clear headed and practical man--very ready to listen and weigh carefully all that is said to him . " | |
| 840 | virtues | 1 | PERSON | he wrote a biography of adam smith , extolling the virtues of free trade . | |
| 841 | brigades | 1 | USE | force of 14 divisions ( the original plan was for 28 ) and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades at home , the officer training corps and the special reserve . | |
| 842 | music hall song | 1 | ARTWORK | the accusations were widely believed and were even echoed in a popular music hall song ( " all dressed up and nowhere to go " ) in the revue " mr manhattan " . | |
| 843 | theory | 1 | COGNITIVE STATE | 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 . | |
| 844 | scotsman | 1 | PERSON | rosebery admired haldane 's intellect , and the scotsman urged upon his friend , whom he had known since 1886 , an assault on tory power in the lords in 1894 . | |
| 845 | haldane reforms haldane | 1 | PERSON | haldane leaving reviewing grounds with clarence page townsley : capt e.r householder ; capt e.r. gregory army reforms main article : haldane reforms haldane set up the imperial general staff . | |
| 846 | negotiations | 1 | PROCESS | in october 1907 haldane was intimately involved with the negotiations at windsor with kaiser wilhelm ii . | |
| 847 | albert ballin | 1 | PERSON | following the outbreak of the first world war haldane was falsely accused of pro-german sympathies , in july 1914 , for hosting albert ballin , a german shipping magnate and unofficial mediator between germany and britain . | |
| 848 | heart disease | 1 | DISEASE | he died suddenly of heart disease at his home in auchterarder , scotland , on 19 august 1928 , aged 72 . | |
| 849 | shipping magnate | 1 | PERSON | following the outbreak of the first world war haldane was falsely accused of pro-german sympathies , in july 1914 , for hosting albert ballin , a german shipping magnate and unofficial mediator between germany and britain . | |
| 850 | national library | 1 | PLACE | papers and photographs of richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , and of the haldane family . , national library of scotland an autobiography . | |
| 851 | naomi mitchison | 1 | PERSON | he was the grandson of the scottish evangelist james alexander haldane , the brother of respiratory physiologist john scott haldane , sir william haldane and author elizabeth haldane , and the uncle of j. b. s. haldane , robert haldane makgill and naomi mitchison . | |
| 852 | walter hepburne scott | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 853 | great britain | 1 | PLACE | in november 1923 lord birkenhead , the conservative politician , praised haldane 's contribution to britain 's preparedness for the first world war : in the welter of sentimentality , amid which great britain might easily have mouldered into ruin , my valued colleague , lord haldane , presented a figure alike interesting , individual , and arresting . | |
| 854 | hedley byrne | 1 | PERSON | heilbut , symons & co v buckleton ukhl 2 , no damages for non-fraudulent misrepresentation , reversed by hedley byrne * british westinghouse electric and manufacturing co v underground | |
| 855 | secret memorandum | 1 | NUMBER | usually critical , rosebery remarked on haldane 's interest in philosophy , declaring : " i have read his secret memorandum , and that was enough " . | |
| 856 | resort | 1 | PLACE | contribution to canadian constitutional law as lord chancellor , haldane was a member of the judicial committee of the privy council , at that time the court of last resort for the empire . | |
| 857 | company | 1 | INSTITUTION | lennard 's carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac 705 , directors are presumed to be the controlling minds of the company * | |
| 858 | toynbee hall | 1 | PLACE | he made some famous speeches at toynbee hall for the annual american seminar . | |
| 859 | ramsay macdonald | 1 | PERSON | in office 22 january 1924 - 6 november 1924 monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald preceded by the viscount cave succeeded by the viscount cave leader of the house of lords | |
| 860 | attorney general | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 861 | events | 1 | UNKNOWN | having been awarded the order of merit in 1915 , in the personal gift of george v , he wrote a memorandum of events , 1906-15 , to defend his reputation . | |
| 862 | papers | 1 | PERSON | papers and photographs of richard burdon haldane , 1st viscount haldane , and of the haldane family . , national library of scotland an autobiography . | |
| 863 | coincidence | 1 | EVENT | by coincidence , both men had been born in charlotte square , in edinburgh . | |
| 864 | history | 1 | SITUATION | unity in the liberals helped them obtain the largest electoral majority in the party 's history in the 1906 general election . | |
| 865 | sound body | 1 | BODY | haldane was also instrumental in the creation the advisory committee for aeronautics in 1909 , which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the united kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ) . | |
| 866 | expert | 1 | PERSON | on lord loreburn 's retirement in june 1912 , haldane succeeded him as lord chancellor , making a self-deprecating speech as to his abilities as a legal expert . | |
| 867 | background | 1 | INFORMATION | background and education haldane was born at 17 charlotte square , edinburgh , the son of robert haldane and his wife mary elizabeth , daughter of richard burdon-sanderson . | |
| 868 | co ltd ukhl | 1 | UNKNOWN | kreglinger v new patagonia meat & cold storage co ltd ukhl 1 , no clog on equity of redemption * | |
| 869 | situation | 1 | SITUATION | as the situation in europe worsened , asquith kept haldane abreast of developments with sir edward grey at the foreign office . | |
| 870 | manufacturing co v underground electric railway co | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 871 | spender | 1 | PERSON | j. a . spender later wrote of how haldane got the best work out of an able but verbally-incoherent soldier ( thought to refer to haig ) by not scoring verbal points off him , as many politicians would have done . | |
| 872 | h. h. asquith | 1 | PERSON | in office 10 december 1905 - 12 june 1912 prime minister sir henry campbell-bannerman h. h. asquith preceded by h. o. arnold-forster succeeded by colonel j.e.b . seely member of the house of lords lord temporal hereditary peerage 27 march 1911 - 19 august 1928 member of parliament for haddingtonshire | |
| 873 | webb | 1 | PERSON | webb , the socialist who was a close intimate , remarked on how alone haldane was in the world . |
| Categoría | Objetos |
| PERSON |
adam smith aggressor albert ballin albert einstein albert grey allies amid argent arthur balfour asquith atheist attorney general august member author elizabeth haldane bachelor balfour balliol balmoral barrister bear beatrice webb beatrice webb haldane beaverbrook behalf believer bencher bend chequy sable bonar law brother cabinet members campbell bannerman capt e.r householder cares carrying co ltd v asiatic petroleum co ltd ac chancellor charm chief justice bora laskin churchill cigar smoker clarence page townsley cold storage co ltd ukhl colleague colonel j.e.b commander in chief contract cook v deeks ukpc counsel cousin creed daughter david lloyd george defence defense depositors dismissal dunlop pneumatic tyre co ltd v selfridge e. p. dutton e.p. dutton earl loreburn edition edmund gosse education haldane emma ferguson emma valentine ferguson emperor empiricism esher euston evangelist james alexander haldane expert eye f. r. scott fabian campaigners sidney family butler fba feature field marshal kitchener first lord first world war haldane fluent followers foreign secretary founders freedom friend friend general haig frs fsa general aylmer haldane george v gifford lectures gift government haldane government ministers grandson great west saddlery company limited grey h. h. asquith h. o. arnold forster haig haldane haldane chairman haldane mission haldane principle haldane reforms haldane reforms haldane hedley byrne hegel henry campbell bannerman historian correlli barnett historicist hodder home secretary horace hugo idealist imperialist implications intellectual intimate j. b. s. haldane jack seely january haldane jasperson v dominion tobacco co ac jenkins john hope personal details born john murray jones v jones ac joseph chamberlain july edinburgh june prime minister sir henry campbell bannerman h. h. asquith junior kaiser kaiser wilhelm ii kedleston secretary king king edward king ukpc labour labour peers labour politician law law as lord chancellor lawyer lawyers leader leaders leadership legislation lennard lennox leo amery leonard hobhouse liberal liberal imperialist edward grey liberal imperialist wing liberal member liberal unionist liberals librarian life lord haldane life portrait lincoln lines lloyd george longs lord buckmaster lord chancellor lord haldane lord loreburn lord parmoor lord rosebery lords lords lord temporal hereditary love lurch macedo v stroud ac macmillan major general haig man man very manufacturing co v underground electric railway co march haldane margot asquith marquess curzon martin master mediator member members men minister arthur balfour miss valentine ferguson mission monarch montagu mother motto suffer orders order mrs humphry ward naomi mitchison nation nocton v lord ashburton ac nothing november lord november monarch george v prime minister ramsay macdonald november prime minister ramsay macdonald october haldane officer officers official historian brigadier james edmonds osbert sitwell paisley by election papers party friend party liberal passage pathway philip de lászló philosopher philosopher politician philosophers politician politicians president price maintenance principle priority professor hermann lotze publicity purist queen ramsay macdonald reality reformers researchers respiratory physiologist john scott haldane richard burdon haldane richard burdon sanderson richard haldane richard haldane haldane robert haldane robert haldane makgill ronald munro ferguson rosebery roses gules rot roy jenkins sable scholar schopenhauer scotsman secretary shareholders shipping magnate sinclair v brougham ac sir edward grey sir walter sir william haldane sir william harcourt sister socialist solicitor general son souls spender spiritual statesman statute stay stepfather stoughton students supporters supreme court symons sympathies t. h. green thinker thistle order ties toronto electric commissioners v. snider uncle vanity fair venetia stanley virtues viscount cave viscount cave leader viscount haldane viscount haldane crest an eagle viscount haldane kt om pc frs fsa fba haldane walker walter hepburne scott walter reid war secretary webb whig politician lord camperdown wife mary elizabeth wing winston churchill woman writer writings haldane year haldane |
| PLACE |
austria hungary bar berlin birkenhead blue post public house britain britain spent canada charlotte square cork street country county edinburgh profession barrister charlotte square estimates europe foreign office france french front germany goethe great britain haddingtonshire haldane recreational library heidelberg home house imperial college london imperial general staff london london ac lord fisher lords library mr manhattan national library new liberalism new square chambers new york north berwick office paris perth place platform point reign resort russia scotland scotland an autobiography toynbee hall united kingdom war office west point western front westminster central hall windsor world |
| EVENT |
academics advances amity announcement armistice boer war budget crisis character coincidence conflicts contribution contributions court creation damages death demands desire dining fellow first world war formula great war health problems hope incident irish war life novel precedents quarters recommendations research respect second secretaries shell crisis shock slaughter subjects surprise announcement talents toast war writings |
| ACT |
acts allegations approach army expenditure british north america act cabinet canadian constitution commerce act conduct conference contemporary review coronation honours list criticism departure education act establishment expenditure expense fair prices act idea ideas interest international politics london university act mitigation order parliament act pleadings popularity protection rebuke recognition redemption relativity representation resignation retirement sections sentimentality speculation support tempo |
| INSTITUTION |
aircraft industry aristotelian society articles club association bristol british academy civic university club company directors discussion club edinburgh edinburgh academy edinburgh sir walter scott club education university eighty club göttingen göttingen university host imperial college institute institutions london school organization press service st andrews university wilderness |
| PERIOD |
april august day days december january july june march may november october office december office january office june september time year years |
| HUMAN GROUP |
advisory committee albert grey committee army army council british army colonial defence committee committee council defence committee e.r. gregory army esher committee haldane family judicial committee labour movement parliament people privy council territorial army |
| PROCESS |
cavalry division division divisions education election elections general election german speaker governance intention jobs negotiations process removal speaker trade |
| FORCE |
admiralty british expeditionary force centre party dinner party expeditionary force force friction labour party liberal party party proof royal air force security territorial force welter |
| STATE |
bed rest career careers cuts empire engagement fortunes interference peace personality preparedness procession state |
| ACTION |
action affairs attempt effort efforts escutcheon quarterly humanism impact issues reform agenda |
| ABSTRACT ENTITY |
coat coinage constitutional data equivalent failure niceties seat special reserve warship construction |
| AMOUNT |
accusations army reform british westinghouse electric charges claim education reform exchequer labour candidates prices reforms |
| PROPERTY |
age equity health legality majority properties property readings stance |
| GROUP |
annual american seminar control corps cross party groups group machinery philosophy predecessors socialism |
| STUDY |
case cases economics economy phraseology retrenchment revolution science study |
| FORM |
idealism import intellect intellects match revue secret |
| CONDITION |
advantage arms caption condition constraints rheumatism ruin tensions |
| INSTANCE |
blow impression instance misrepresentation omission pensions realism |
| BODY |
board inn legislature liberalism membership militarism sound body |
| POWER |
commerce power government power injustice law power power powers tory power |
| QUALITY |
abolition democracy duty efficiency height independence |
| GOVERNMENT |
coalition government german general staff government governments labour government |
| NUMBER |
founding memorandum second memorandum secret memorandum successor |
| SITUATION |
deal emergencies history landscapes situation |
| DECISION |
advice appointment decision decisions |
| ARRANGEMENT |
administration army management labour administration public administration |
| COLLECTION |
collection peerage practice |
| OCCURRENCE |
campaign outbreak solution |
| CONCEPT |
centrism clog specialism |
| ARTICLE |
article berlin main article main article |
| RULE |
aeronautics policy precept |
| SPEECH |
firebrand speeches speech speeches |
| ACTIVITY |
meeting things work |
| RESOURCE |
plot spy |
| NATURE |
arms reduction principles principles |
| SUBSTANCE |
development developments |
| PURPOSE |
nonsense purpose |
| VEHICLE |
aircraft aviation |
| RACE |
arms race breed |
| EFFECT |
effect effects |
| STATEMENT |
merit risk |
| VALUE |
continent future |
| SET |
connection set |
| HEAD |
head sore head |
| DOCUMENT PART |
budget unity |
| AGREEMENT |
compromise relugas compact |
| FUNCTION |
firm friends friends |
| TENDENCY |
tendency tide |
| POSITION |
nucleus position |
| ROOM |
classroom room |
| COGNITIVE STATE |
experience theory |
| STRUCTURE |
complex structure |
| ELEMENT |
element influence |
| FIGURE |
figure minds |
| LANGUAGE |
arms language |
| DISEASE |
heart disease income |
| HUMAN ROLE |
minister prime minister |
| RELATIONSHIP |
interplay relationship |
| INFORMATION |
background backgrounds |
| ENTITY |
provinces thing |
| SOUND |
perspective sense |
| SEQUENCE |
biography lodge |
| FIRE |
fire |
| WORD |
out |
| INJURY |
detriment |
| STAGE |
stage |
| STATUS |
authority |
| ARTWORK |
music hall song |
| LOCATION |
birthplace |
| SIMILARITY |
symmetry |
| IMAGE |
daily express |
| RELATION |
relations |
| RESPONSIBILITY |
responsibility |
| PLAN |
plan |
| AIR |
air |
| QUANTITY |
fault |
| FOOD |
dinner |
| EMOTION |
confidence |
| SKILL |
skill |
| PERMISSION |
account |
| REPUTATION |
reputation |
| DISPUTE |
disputes |
| VERTEBRATE |
linguist |
| UNIT |
conscription |
| MEAT |
kreglinger v new patagonia meat |
| QUESTION |
eight hours question |
| TIME PERIOD |
annum |
| USE |
brigades |
| LAND |
shores |
| ILLNESS |
illness |
| CAUSE |
cause |
| SYSTEM |
railway |
| ROLE |
role |
| TRUST |
belief |
| RANK |
rank |
| PICTURE |
photographs |
| TERM |
terms |
| DOCUMENT |
level |
| COMPOUND |
chloroform |
| ANYTHING |
anything |
| DIRECTION |
direction |
| ABILITY |
preface |