Haldane
Clan Crest: An eagle’s headed Erased, Or
Clan Motto: Suffer
Origin of Name: ‘Half-Dane’
Lands: Gleneagles
Historic Seat: Airthrey Castle, Stirling
Clan Chief: Martin Haldane of Gleneagles
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Haldane Clan History
It has been proposed that the name Haldane is derived from a phrase that means 'Half-Dane.' It is undoubtedly an ancient Scottish surname dating back to the 12th century, when William the Lion granted the family the manor of Hauden. A cadet branch of the family is said to have settled in the Strathearn area of Scotland. The lands they obtained were incorporated into the larger barony of Gleneagles. The clan chiefs are still present.
Aylmer de Haldane was another noble whose name appeared on Edward I's Ragman Roll in 1296, and who, like so many other Scottish nobles who found the taste of subjugation to an English Monarch too bitter to bear, sided with Robert The Bruce during the wars of independence.
Sir Simon de Haldane's territory grew significantly after he married Matilda de Arnot. Sir Simon had already received the lands of Bardrill in Strathearn in 1312, but the union gave him control of additional land in the earldom of Lennox.
Sir John Haldane, third of Gleneagles, gave the Crown lands in Perthshire, Stirlingshire, and Fife in 1482, establishing the free barony of Gleneagles. Sir John had no intention of giving up his property entirely because he had a legitimate claim to the earldom of Lennox through his marriage to Agnes, daughter of Murdoch Menteith of Rusky. The title was contested by himself and Lord Darnley, John Stewart. The dispute appears to have ended on a surprisingly amicable note for the time, with Darnley retaining the title and Sir John receiving a quarter of the lands after a lengthy legal battle.
Sir James Haldane, fourth of Gleneagles and Governor of Dunbar Castle, had a son, who was responsible for establishing the barony of Haldane in 1508 by incorporating lands in Lennox and Perthshire that were not already part of Gleneagles. Unfortunately, he did not live long enough to enjoy the new barony because he was killed along with many other Scottish nobles at Flodden in 1513.
Stirling Castle was besieged by supporters of the Earl of Angus and other Protestant noblemen in 1585. The Haldanes were among those who fought to have the banishment of these nobles lifted, and the Laird's brother, James, was killed in a battle with Sir William Stewart, colonel of the Royal Guard, and was reportedly shot by Sir William's servant.
Sir John Haldane, the eleventh Laird, was knighted by Charles I in 1633. He was a staunch supporter of the National Covenant's religious freedoms and raised men and supplies to fight the Covenanter cause. Sir John was unfortunately part of the force at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, another Scottish military disaster that claimed his life.
General George Haldane, the sixteenth Laird's son, was a professional soldier, as was his ancestor, the eleventh Laird. During the '45 rebellion, he fought against the Jacobites, serving under the notorious Duke of Cumberland.
The lands were inherited in 1820 by Admiral Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, a cousin of the eighteenth Haldane of Gleneagles, and his son, who inherited his title in 1831, also took the surname Haldane. When the fourth Earl of Camperdown relinquished his rights to the Gleneagles estates in 1918, they were returned to a Haldane, James Chinnery-Haldane. Broderick, one of his sons, became a well-known portrait photographer, while his other son held the chiefship until his death in 1994, when it passed to his nephew Martin.
Haldane Places & People
People of Clan Haldane
James Alexander Haldane (1768-1851)
Leader of a Scottish independent church. He was born in Dundee, the younger son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey House in Stirlingshire. After attending Dundee Grammar School, the Royal High School, and the University of Edinburgh, he joined the Duke of Montrose East Indiaman as a midshipman at the age of seventeen. After four voyages to India, he was appointed to command the Melville Castle in the summer of 1793; however, having begun a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and having come under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, he abruptly decided to leave the navy for a religious life and returned to Scotland.
He was ordained as the pastor of a large Independent congregation in Edinburgh in 1799. This was Scotland's first congregational church of that name. He continued to minister gratuitously to this church for more than fifty years. In 1808, he publicly declared his conversion to Baptist beliefs. As his age forced him to withdraw from the more exhausting labors of travel and open-air preaching, he attempted to influence the discussion of current religious and theological issues through the press.
Mr. J.B.S. Haldane
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (J.B.S.) (1892–1964)
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist from the United Kingdom. He was a founding member of population genetics. Haldane was born in Edinburgh to aristocratic Scottish parents. Naomi Mitchison, his younger sister, became a writer. Haldane received his education at Dragon School, Eton College, and New College, Oxford.
He served with the Black Watch in France and Iraq during World War I. Between 1919 and 1922, he was a fellow at New College, then at Cambridge University, and finally at University College, London, where he spent the majority of the rest of his academic career. He moved to India in the late 1950s.The move was ostensibly intended as a protest against the Suez War, but it had been considered for some time.
Briggs and Haldane developed a better version of the 1913 Michaelis-Menten equation in 1925, which is still used in enzyme kinetics in biochemistry. Haldane made numerous contributions to human genetics and was one of three major figures to develop population genetics mathematical theory.
Haldane was a voracious experimenter, willing to put himself in danger to gather information. One experiment involving high levels of oxygen saturation caused him to have a seizure, resulting in crushed vertebrae. He and his volunteers suffered perforated eardrums during his decompression chamber experiments, but as Haldane stated in What is Life, "the drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment."
Haldane was a friend of Aldous Huxley's and inspired the character of biologist Shearwater in Huxley's novel Antic Hay. Ideas from Haldane's Daedalus influenced Huxley's Brave New World, such as ectogenesis (the development of fetuses in artificial wombs). Haldane passed away on December 1, 1964. He desired that his body be used for research at Rangaraya Medical College in Kakinada.
Archibald Richard Burdon Haldane (1900 – 1982)
Scottish author and social historian. He was Edith (née Nelson) Haldane's son, Sir William Haldane's grandson, and Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane's nephew. Graeme Haldane, his brother, married Janet Macrae Simpson-Smith.
He, like his father and uncles, attended the Edinburgh Academy before enrolling at Balliol College, Oxford, to study history. He returned to Scotland to join his father's law firm and served as Fiscal to the Society of Writers to the Signet for a time. He then became involved in the Savings Bank movement, serving as vice-chairman of the Savings Bank Association at one point. In 1982, he was awarded the CBE for his contributions to the bank.
He was best known as a social historian and author, as well as for his seminal work on Scotland's drove roads. He received the honorary degree of D Litt from the University of Edinburgh in recognition of his work in this field. He wrote two more books in this genre, New Ways through the Glens and Three Centuries of Scottish Posts, as well as several on his favorite pastime, trout fishing, which he loved.
Haldane Tartans
Tartans Haldane
There is no registered tartan for this name; however, these tartans are suitable.
Graham of Menteith the Elder
Menteith Modern Graham
Weathered Graham of Menteith
Menteith Red Graham
Haldane Crest & Coats of Arms
Clan Haldane Crest:
Crest: An eagle's head erased, or
Coats of Arms of Haldane:
A word about Coats of Arms:
A coat of arms is granted to an individual under Scottish heraldic law (with the exception of civic or corporate arms). A 'family coat of arms' does not exist. With the exceptions noted above, the arms depicted below are personal arms. Only the person who has been granted these weapons has the right to use them.
HALDANE and his ilk
Gules, two leopards passant and guardant, Argent.
Gleneagles' HALDANE
Quarterly: Argent, a saltire engrailed, Sable (for Haldane); Gules, a saltire engrailed, between four roses (for the Earldom of Lennox*); Or, a bend, chequy, Sable and Argent (for Menteith).
Gleneagles' HALDANE
THAT ILK'S HALDANE
Gules, two leopards passant guardant Argent, according to Alexander Nisbet's System of Heraldry
1722
LANERICK HADDEN (HALDANE)
Quarterly, first and fourth argent a saltire engrailed Sable Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses, 2nd Gules 3rd, a bend chequy Argent and Sable with a crescent Gules in the fess point. Sir James Balfour is a British politician. Paul's Ordinary in Scotland
1672-7
AUCHENCRUIVE AUCHENCRUIVE HALDANE-OSWALD
Quarterly 1st Azure, a savage wreathed with bay leaves around the head and middle, holding a quiver of arrows by his side, a bow in his left hand proper, and pointing with his right to a blazing star in the dexter chief point Or, for Oswald, within a bordure engrailed of the last. Second Gules, two leopards passant guardant Argent (for Haldane of that Ilk). Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses Gules (for Lennox). For Monteith, a bend chequy Sable and Argent. Sir James Balfour is a British politician. Paul's Ordinary in Scotland
1861, second matriculation
HALDANE, Daniel Rutherford MD
b.1824 d.1887 1st and 4th quarters Argent a saltire engrailed Sable Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses, 2nd Gules 3rd, Or, a bend chequy Argent and Sable, a mullet Sable in the center of the shield. Sir James Balfour is a British politician. Paul's Ordinary in Scotland
1878
Alexander Haldane's half-brother
CD by James HALDANE
Edinburgh
b.1831 d.1906 1st and 4th quarters Argent a saltire engrailed Sable Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses, 2nd Gules 3rd Or a bend chequy Argent and Sable in the center of a martlet Sable. Sir James Balfour is a British politician. Paul's Ordinary in Scotland
1878
Alexander Haldane's half-brother
After that, Rev James Robert Alexander HALDANE-CHINNERY
CHINNERY-HALDANE, Rev James Robert Alexander
1st and 4th quarters Argent a saltire engrailed Sable Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses, 2nd Gules 3rd Or, a bend chequy Argent and Sable, a martlet in the center of the shield Sable
A pretence escutcheon
A chevron ermine azure between three lions rampant Or a harp of the third string Argent on a canton Vert (for Chinnery). Sir James Balfour is a British politician. Paul's Ordinary in Scotland
1st Matriculation 1878
1882, second matriculation
Alexander Haldane's eldest son
HALDANE, James Alexander
b.1844 d.1901 1st and 4th quarters Argent a saltire engrailed Sable Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses, 2nd Gules third Or a bend chequy Argent and Sable in the center of the shield a crescent Sable. Sir James Balfour is a British politician. Paul's Ordinary in Scotland
1879
Robert Haldane's son (b.1805 – d.1877), Alexander Haldane's brother
Broderick, James CHINNERY-HALDANE
Gleneagles 24th
Quarterly, Argent a saltire engrailed Sable (for Haldane). On a canton, a chevron ermine between three lions rampant Or armed and langued Gules. Argent, a third-stringed harp Vert (for Chinnery) Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses Gules (for Lennox). For Menteith, a bend chequy Argent and Sable. Volume II of the Ordinary of Arms, 1902-1973
30th May 1908; 19/78
HALDANE, Rt Hon Richard Burdon
The Viscount Haldane 1st and 4th quarters Argent a saltire engrailed Sable Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses, 2nd For difference, Gules 3rd Or a bend chequy Argent and Sable at the fess point of the escutcheon a crescent Sable all within a bordure Or. Volume II of the Ordinary of Arms, 1902-1973
June 9th, 1911, 21/22
Aylmer, Robert NORTHROE HALDANE Quarterly, first and fourth argent a saltire engrailed Sable Argent, a saltire engrailed between four roses, 2nd Gules 3rd Or a bend chequy Argent and Sable with a crescent Vert at the fess point of the escutcheon for difference. Volume II of the Ordinary of Arms, 1902-1973
March 21, 1966 49/30
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