Word: burdons
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LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane, Liberal, a man of immense knowledge and understanding (TIME...
...Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, aged 67, is a National Liberal and was Lord Chancellor under Premier Asquith from 1912 to 1915. He is probably one of the most liberal minded peers in the House of Lords, besides being a man of gigantic intellectual gifts. A foremost authority on legal matters, a scholar with numerous degrees attached to his name, and author of several important and interesting philosophical works, it is said that he makes a habit of reading a book each morning before breakfast, a task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such...