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(Continued from page 818.) That distinguished soldier,. Sir Aylmer Haldane, ' has produced a really admirable history of his family. The Haldanes of Gleneagles (Blackwood) is not merely a handsome quarto with pedigrees and portraits, but is also a serious contribution to Scottish and English history. The Haldanes are first heard of on the Borders, but appear also in Perthshire in the days when Bruce was fighting for Scottish independence. A Haldane was killed at Dunbar. Another worked for the Union of 1707, was returned to Westminster and suffered much loss at the hands of the Jacobite army in 1715. General Haldane governed Jamaica in 1758-9 and was at the taking of -Martinique. In our own day the family has fully upheld its' fine traditions in many spheres of activity. The account of the late Lord Haldane is of special interest.
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