Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1856

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1928

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, (; 30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928) was an influential British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher.
He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented.
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 false allegations of German sympathies.
He later joined the Labour Party and once again served as Lord Chancellor in 1924 in the first ever Labour administration.
Apart from his legal and political careers, Haldane was also an influential writer on philosophy, in recognition of which he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1914.