Haynes, Edmund
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Haynes, Edmund Sidney Pollock (26 September 1877 - 5 January 1949)
Haynes, a British lawyer and writer, was the son of a London solicitor. He was a King's Scholar at Eton College and won a Brackenbury Scholarship at Balliol College.
He practiced law where his father also had, at 9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, and he married one of Huxley's granddaughters.
Haynes wrote in defense of liberty and for the reform of the divorce law. His rationalism is found particularly in his Belief in Personal Immortality (1913).
An agnostic, Haynes was a life member of the Rationalist Press Association.
Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State is dedicated to Haynes.
Selected Works
- Standards of Taste in Art (1904).
- Religious Persecution, a Study in Political Psychology (1904; popular edition, 1906).
- Early Victorian and Other Papers (1908).
- Divorce Problems of To-Day (1912).
- The Belief in Personal Immortality (1913 and 1925).
- A Study in Bereavement, a Comedy in One Act (1914).
- Divorce as it might be (1915).
- The Decline of Liberty in England (1916).
- Personalia (1918 and 1927).
- The Case for Liberty (1919).
- Concerning Solicitors (1920).
- The Enemies of Liberty (1923).
- Fritto Misto (1924).
- Lycurgus or The Future of Law (1925).
- Much Ado about Women (1927).
- A Lawyer's Notebook (1932).
- More from a Lawyer's Notebook (1933).
- The Lawyer's Last Notebook (1934).
- Divorce and its Problems (with Derek Walker-Smith, 1935).
- Life, Law, and Letters (1936).
