E. S. P. Haynes
Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes (26 September 1877 – 5 January 1949), best known as E. S. P. Haynes was a British lawyer and writer.
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Born | 26 September 1877 |
Died | 5 January 1949 |
Occupation | Lawyer, writer |
Biography
The son of a London solicitor, Haynes was a King's Scholar at Eton College and a winner of a Brackenbury Scholarship at Balliol College. Haynes practised in the same offices at 9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, where his father had practised. A prolific author, he was a well-known figure in London's literary circles from 1900 to his death in 1949. His daughter was novelist Renée Haynes.[1]
Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State is dedicated to Haynes.
Skepticism
Haynes was an atheist.[2] He was also a rationalist, his book The Belief in Personal Immortality (1913) was skeptical of the claims of psychical research and life after death.[3]
Publications
- 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).
References
- Bogen, Anna. (2016). Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945. Routledge. p. 28.
- Clark, Ronald William. (1968). The Huxleys. McGraw-Hill. p. 244
- McCabe, Joseph. (1950). A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science. Watts. p. 311
Further reading
- Renée Haynes. (1987). Mistakes about E. S. P. Haynes. The Chesterton Review 13 (3): 420-421.