Lord Haldane Dead

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 437, 20 August 1928, Page 9

Lord Haldane Dead

LONG POLITICAL CAREER FORMER LORD CHANCELLOR (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (United Service) Reed. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Sun.

Viscount Haldane, who was Lord Chancellor in the then Mr. Asquith’s Cabinet, died today at the age 72. He leaves no heir During the late Viscount Haldane’s tenure of office as Secre-

Late tary of War, says Lord Haldane. a British Official Wireless message, he perfected a scheme for an expeditionary force, and converted the old volunteers into a territorial army, with training, organisation and equipment which enabled it to play so efficient a part in the Great War.

The Right Hon. Richard Burden Haldane, F.R.S., K.T., 0.M., first Viscount of that name, was born in 1856 and educated at the Ed inburgh Academy, Edinburgh and Gottingen Universities. He entered Parliament in 1885 as Liberal member for Haddingtonshire, which he represented continuously until 1911. He was Secretary of State for War from 1905 to 1912, Lord High Chancellor from 1912 to 1915 and in 1924. The late Lord Haldane was admitted as a barrister in 1879 and became Queen’s Counsel in 1890, later receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law of Oxford. He was rector of Edinburgh University from 1905 to 1908 and Chancellor of the University of Bristol. He was also a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. His publications include several philosophical and educational works. “HARSHLY TREATED” WHAT BRITAIN OWES TO HALDANE SAVED BRITAIN IN 1915 (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (United Service) Reed. 2.15 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. Mr. Lloyd George, referring to Lord Haldane to-day, said: “I always thought he was most harshly .treated in war-time and accorded the basest ingratitude. No British statesman more greatly ensured the allied success. He organised the territorials who saved us during the dark winter of 1915, when we had no other troops. He organised the general staff and expeditionary force, and initiated the officers’ cadet corps, yet he was trated as if a traitor to his native land. It hurt him deeply at times.”