Robert Dudley Baxter

Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827, Doncaster – 1875, Frognal) was an English economist and statistician.

Life

Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge University.[1] He studied law and entered his father's firm of Baxter & Co., solicitors, with which he was connected until his death. Though studiously attentive to business, he was enabled, as a member of the Statistical and other learned societies, to accomplish much useful economic work. [2]

Works

His principal economic writings were:

  • The Budget and the Income Tax, 1860
  • Railway Extension and its Results, 1866
  • The National Income, 1868
  • The Taxation of the United Kingdom, 1869
  • National Debts of the World, 1871
  • Local Government and Taxation, 1874

His purely political writings included:

  • The Volunteer Movement, 1860
  • The Redistribution of Seats and the Counties, 1866
  • History of English Parties and Conservatism, 1870
  • The Political Progress of the Working Classes, 1871

Notes

  1. ↑ "Baxter, Robert Dudley (BKSR845RD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ Chisholm 1911.

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baxter, Robert Dudley". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  •  Walford, Cornelius (1885). "Baxter, Robert Dudley". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  • Feuchtwanger, E. J. "Baxter, Robert Dudley (1827–1875)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1735. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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