Serious Minds McLauchlan Richard
Serious Minds McLauchlan Richard The Times hailed Richard Burdon Haldane as 'one of the most powerful ... His brother John, a great physiologist, invented the first gas masks used in World War One.…
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Serious Minds McLauchlan Richard
The Times hailed Richard Burdon Haldane as 'one of the most powerful ... His brother John, a great physiologist, invented the first gas masks used in World War One. intellects' British statesmanship had ever seen.
Their mother Mary, friend and advisor to top politicians and churchmen, nurtured these exceptional minds.Mary's grandchildren swapped her traditional roots for radical socialism, but continued the brilliant family legacy. Their sister Elizabeth was among the first women to become a senior public servant. Naomi Mitchison was a doyenne of Scottish literature; one Nobel prizewinner called her brother, the geneticist J.B.S.
Haldane, 'the cleverest man I ever knew'. Like the Darwins and Keyneses, this clan of thinkers lived in rapidly changing times, and helped to remake the world around them.Drawing on extensive family interviews and previously unseen private