A NEW PEERAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1085, 25 March 1911, Page 5

A NEW PEERAGE.

MR. HALDANE A VISCOUNT. By TcleEraph—Press Association—Oopyricht London, March 23. ' The Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Secrotary of State for War, has been made a viscount. Mr. Haldano was educated at the universities o£ Edinburgh and was admitted to the bar; on entering Parliament sat with the Opposition, and was a member of the House of Commons for twenty years before he received his first appointment in the Government as Secretary for War. "A Soldier," writing of him in the "World's AVork" last year, said: "He does not rcsembla tho man of law or tho thinker, but would bo adjudged by 09 men out of every 100 to lie d country squire of pronounced Tory views. He combines a keen intellect with a pro-: digious capacity for work and enormous driving power. He is not an orator, but bo is a most persuasivo speaker,—''persuasion tips his tongue'—and he never tails to give credit, when due, to his predecessors and advisers, bo they opponents or friends. Calm, self-possessed, and thoroughly practical, he trusts to closo and sustained arguments to make good his case, appealing neither to passion nor to prejudice, and like a true philosopher scorning to make uso of invective or sarcasm."