![]() ![]() ![]() Asquith, and in 1924 during the first Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald), was better known. Haldane (1892–1964), but in her youth her paternal uncle Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, twice Lord Chancellor (from 1912 to 1915 under H. Today the best-known member of the family is probably Naomi's elder brother, the biologist J. However, both were of landed stock the Haldane family had been feudal barons of Gleneagles since the 13th century. Naomi's parents came from different political backgrounds, her father being a Liberal and her mother from a Conservative, pro- imperialist family. Naomi Mary Margaret Haldane was born in Edinburgh, the daughter and younger child of the physiologist John Scott Haldane and his wife (Louisa) Kathleen Trotter. Her 1931 work, The Corn King and the Spring Queen, is seen by some as the prime 20th-century historical novel. Her husband Dick Mitchison's life peerage in 1964 entitled her to call herself Lady Mitchison, but she never did. Often called a doyenne of Scottish literature, she wrote over 90 books of historical and science fiction, travel writing and autobiography. Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison CBE ( née Haldane 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet. ![]()
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