Tour Scotland photograph of Cloan House, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Victorian Gothic turrets of Cloan, home of Viscount Haldane philosopher and statesman, visited by every great man of the period from Albert Einstein, Lloyd George to Baden Pawell. Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane of Cloan, Viscount, born 1856, died 1928, British statesman. He entered the House of Commons as a Liberal. As war secretary from, 1905 to 1912, he effected drastic army reforms, creating a British expeditionary force, an imperial general staff, an officers training corps, and the territorial army. He was created a peer in 1911. On a diplomatic mission to Germany in 1912) he rejected a proposal of British neutrality in any war into which Germany might be drawn. In Ramsay MacDonald's first short Labour ministry in 1924 he was again lord chancellor. He was first chancellor of the University of Bristol and was elected lord rector of Edinburgh. Haldane was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh in 1912. He died at Cloan House and is buried at Gleneagles. The current chief of Clan Haldane is Martin Haldane of Gleneagles.
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