richard burdon 1st viscount haldane of cloane

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born July 30, 1856, Edinburgh, Scot. died Aug. 19, 1928, Cloan, Perthshire Scottish lawyer and statesman. As British secretary of state for war (1905-12), he instituted important military reforms; the speedy mobilization of British forces in 1914 was largely due to his planning. He was lord chancellor (1912-15) in H.H. Asquith's government and again (1924) in James Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party government
richard burdon 1st viscount haldane of cloane
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