Haldane, Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan, and E. M. Forster, whose A Passage to India he secured the publication of, according to Shashi Tharoor.

With Asquith's Coalition Government in danger of breaking up over conscription ( which Robertson supported ), he blamed Kitchener for the excessive influence which civilians like Churchill and Haldane had come to exert over strategy, allowing ad hoc campaigns to develop in Sinai, Mesopotamia and Salonika, and not asking the General Staff ( whose chief James Wolfe-Murray was intimidated by Kitchener ) to study the feasibility of any of these campaigns.

Almer de Haldane was a Scottish noble whose signature is found on the Ragman Rolls of King Edward I of England in 1296.

An appendix to one of the early books speculates that the usual Deryni powers are carried on the X-chromosome ( thus explaining why Morgan and Duncan, who have Deryni mothers, can have full powers ), while the " Haldane potential " ( also seen in several other families ), is carried on the Y-chromosome.

At this time the Liberal Party was badly split as Herbert Henry Asquith, Richard Burdon Haldane and others were supporters of the war and formed the Liberal Imperial League.

But in practice its members were all well-connected wealthy men, Sinn Fein were not involved despite Haldane ’ s hopes and the proposal angered the existing administrators at Dublin Castle.

He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the " Haldane Reforms " were implemented.

Further reforms were implemented following the war's end by Richard Haldane, the Secretary of State for War.

Haldane showed that discrete mutations were compatible with gradual evolution: see the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Asquith, Lloyd George, Grey, Churchill, and Haldane thought they could force the rest of the Cabinet into their eventual goals, but they were sorely mistaken.

Many of Esher ’ s recommendations were implemented under the new Liberal governments of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Herbert Henry Asquith by Haldane, Secretary of State for War, assisted by Esher's protege the young Major-General Douglas Haig.

Haldane ( 1892 — 1964 ) and his esteemed pupil John Maynard Smith, ( 1920 — 2004 ) were both communists, and both worked for the British governments during the first and second world wars respectively.

However, both families were of landed stock, and the Haldane family had been feudal barons of Gleneagles since the 13th century, but were nevertheless known for their achievements in other spheres.

" To reinforce this point, R. B. Haldane, the Germanophile Lord Chancellor, met with Prince Lichnowsky to offer an explicit warning that if Germany were to attack France, Britain would intervene in France's favor.

Canaries were introduced into British collieries in the 1890s by John Scott Haldane, the noted physiologist.

He was so depressed at the tone of class warfare – although Asquith told him that party rancour had been just as bad over the First Home Rule Bill in 1886 – that he introduced the Prince of Wales to War Minister Haldane as " the last King of England ".

He became gradually less attracted to communism and became a less active member, finally leaving the Party in 1956 like many other intellectuals, after the Soviet Union brutally suppressed the Hungarian Revolution ( Haldane had left the party in 1950 after becoming similarly disillusioned ).

Haldane had full grasp of the basic quantities and considerations that play a role in kin selection.

By autumn 1915, with Asquith ’ s Coalition close to breaking up over conscription, he was blamed for the failure to bring in that measure and for the excessive influence which civilians like Churchill and Haldane had come to exert over strategy, allowing ad hoc campaigns to develop in Sinai, Mesopotamia and Salonika.

Haldane established that natural selection could work in the real world at a faster rate than even Fisher had assumed.

B. S. Haldane wondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remained in the population, and why natural selection had not eliminated it.

Future Liberal Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the 19th century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years.

A key opposition figure in this had been Robert Haldane Bradshaw, one of the trustees of the Marquess of Stafford's Worsley estate, which included the Bridgewater Canal.

The 10th Kings had been a Territorial battalion since the Haldane Reforms in 1909.

Haldane thought he had “ been a great Commander-in-Chief, a soldier of the first order, who held the Army as no other could ”.

They had one daughter, Margaret Haldane, who married James Farquhar Gordon in 1805.

Haldane ’ s first estimates reduced the Army by 16, 600 men and reduced expenditure by £ 2. 6m to £ 28 million, as the Liberals had been elected on a platform of retrenchment.

In all these reforms Haldane worked closely at the War Office with Major-General Haig-by coincidence both men had been born in Charlotte Square in Edinburgh.

Haldane was a vital member of the Cabinet as he was one of only three members who had sat in a cabinet before ; the other two had sat only briefly and for junior posts ..

Haldane published “ The Pathway to Reality ”, based on the Gifford Lectures which he had delivered at the University of St Andrews.

The military historian Correlli Barnett claimed Haldane had " all-round personal talents far exceeding those of his predecessors " as Secretary of State for War and was " a man of first-class intellect and wide education ".

Kitchener declined to use the existing Territorial Force ( which, ironically, had been set up by Haldane and Douglas Haig as part of the Army reforms of the Edwardian period ) as the basis for the New Army, as many of its members had volunteered for " Home Service " only, and because he was suspicious of the poor performance of French " territorials " in the war of 1870-1.

Haldane recommended that Oncken baptize himself, as John Smyth had done.

After short visits to Germany and London, he was invited back to Edinburgh in November 1834 to become minister of North College Street church ( afterwards Argyle Square ), an independent church which had arisen in 1802 out of the evangelical movement associated with the Haldane brothers, Robert and James.

He was made Lord President of the Council and joint Leader of the House of Lords with Viscount Haldane, with the difficult job of piloting government legislation through a House in which it had minimal support.

Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.

Instead of returning to India, he was reassigned to units in England, serving as an adjutant to the 2nd South Middlesex Volunteers ( amalgamated into the 7th Middlesex during the Haldane Reforms ) and helping form the 10th Middlesex, until he was accepted into the Staff College at Camberley in 1913 ( starting work there in January 1914 ).

It was at Lincoln's Inn that in 1882 Asquith met Richard Haldane, whom he would appoint as Lord Chancellor in 1912.

Haldane worked out the mathematics of allele frequency change at a single gene locus under a broad range of conditions.

The murder of two RIC men at Soloheadbeg ( 21 January 1919 ) caused French to call off tentative talks between Haldane and the recently-elected Irish Dáil ( Haldane blamed Walter Long who was opposed to the talks ).

* Haldane of the Secret Service ( 1924 ), Starring Harry Houdini, filmed at Beaver Mill in Valatie

Haldane was afterwards present at the relief of Gibraltar in September 1782.

In 1816 Robert Haldane visited the continent, first at Geneva and afterwards in Montauban.

The younger son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey House, ( his older brother Robert Haldane was also a clergyman ) in Stirlingshire, he was born at Dundee.

He died on 8 February 1851 aged 82 and is commemorated on a Haldane family gravestone in the churchyard at St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh.

Once Byng was enrolled at the Staff College, he found amongst his fellow students men with whom he would be closely associated more than two decades later Henry Rawlinson, Henry Hughes Wilson, Thomas D ' Oyly Snow, and James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane and in 1894, while en route to visit a friend at Aldershot, travelled with a cadet at the nearby Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Winston Churchill.

Adam was the second son of Alexander Duncan of Lundie, Angus, ( d. May 1777 ) Provost of Dundee, and his wife ( and first cousin once removed ) Helen, daughter of John Haldane of Gleneagles, was born at Dundee.

B. S. Haldane to join him at the ISI and Haldane joined as a Research Professor from August 1957 and stayed on until February 1961.