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About Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, was a lawyer and philosopher and an influential British Liberal and later Labour politician. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented. 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.
Everything about Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, judge, jurist
- Position held
- Secretary of State for War, Lord Chancellor, Leader of the House of Lords, Rector of the University of Edinburgh
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- July 30, 1856
- Died
- August 19, 1928