Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane, known as Graeme Haldane (14 December 1897 – 24 June 1981), was a Scottish engineer.
He was the son of Sir
William Haldane Sir William Stowell Haldane WS (19 August 1864 – 7 November 1951) was a Scottish civil servant who was Crown Agent for Scotland.
Biography
Haldane was born in Edinburgh to Mary Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson and Robert Haldane.''Scotland, Select ...
and his wife Edith Nelson. He was a nephew of
Elizabeth Haldane
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (; 27 May 1862 – 24 December 1937) was a Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, nursing administrator, and social welfare worker. She was the sister of Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane an ...
,
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, (; 30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928) was a British lawyer and philosopher and an influential Liberal and later Labour politician. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during whi ...
and
John Scott Haldane
John Scott Haldane (; 2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician and physiologist famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. He also experimen ...
.
He was educated at
Royal Naval College, Osborne
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Boys were admitted at about the age of thirteen to follow a course lasting ...
and
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
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and in the
First World War
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served in the
Royal Navy
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on HM Ships
''Doris'' ''Valiant'' and
''Tiger''. He was present at the
Battle of Jutland
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.
In 1919 he went to
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,
Cambridge
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and worked at the
Cavendish Laboratory
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under Rutherford. He helped establish the
National Grid.
In 1928 he joined
Merz and McLellan
Merz and McLellan was a leading British electrical engineering consultancy based in Newcastle.
History
The firm was founded by Charles Merz and William McLellan in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1902 when McLellan joined Merz's existing firm establishe ...
engineering firm, and in 1941 became a partner. In 1948 he was President of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers
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and won its James Watt Gold Medal in 1953. He retired in 1972.
He had a son named Richard W. Haldane.
Honours
In 2021 he was inducted into the
Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame
The Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame honours "those engineers from, or closely associated with, Scotland who have achieved, or deserve to achieve, greatness", as selected by an independent panel representing Scottish engineering institutions, aca ...
.
References
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External links
The Papers of Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldaneheld at Churchill Archives Centre
Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane– Dreadnought project
1897 births
1981 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Graeme
Members of the Fabian Society
People educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne
20th-century Scottish engineers
Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees
Royal Navy officers of World War I
Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College
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