Archibald Richard Burdon Haldane CBE (18 November 1900 – 18 October 1982) was a Scottish social historian and writer.
[2] Like his father and uncles, he attended the Edinburgh Academy, after which he went up to Balliol College, Oxford to read history.
[1] He returned to Scotland to enter his father's legal firm and acted for a time as Fiscal to the Society of Writers to the Signet.
[1] He was principally known, however, as a social historian and author, and for his seminal work on the drovers' roads of Scotland.
[4] He published two further books in this field, New Ways through the Glens and Three centuries of Scottish posts, as well as several on his favourite pastime of trout fishing, of which he was passionately fond.