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Person Code
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NA12314
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Forenames
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Archibald Richard Burdon
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Surname
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Haldane
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Dates
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1900-1982
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Epithet
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solicitor and writer
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Activity
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Archibald Richard Burdon Haldane was born on 18 November 1900 and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Winchester, and at the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. He became a WS (Writer to the Signet) in 1926. After serving his law apprenticeship he became a partner at his father?s firm of W & F Haldane, Edinburgh, which after amalgamations became Haldane & McLaren and then Haldanes, McLaren & Scott. He became involved in the Trustee Savings Bank movement, including seven years? service as chairman of the of the Banks Inspection Committee, and was appointed CBE in 1968 for his work on behalf of the Bank. He was perhaps best known as the author of a number of books on Scottish social history, including 'The Drove Roads of Scotland' (1950) and 'Three Centuries of Scottish Posts' (1971), and also published on his favourite leisure activity, fishing. He died on 18 October 1982.
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Notes
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Register of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty?s Signet (Edinburgh, 1983); obituary in 'The Times', 29/10/1982
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