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ROBERT DUDLEY BAXTER (1827-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 553 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:DUDLEY See also:BAXTER (1827-1875)  , See also:English economist and statistician, was See also:born at See also:Doncaster in 1827 . He was educated privately and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He studied See also:law and entered his See also:father's See also:firm of See also:Baxter & Co., solicitors, with which he was connected till his See also:death . Though studiously attentive to business, he was enabled, as a member of the Statistical and other learned See also:societies, to accomplish much useful economic See also:work . His See also:principal economic writings were The See also:Budget and the Income Tax (186o), Railway See also:Extension and its Results (1866), The See also:National Income (1868), The See also:Taxation of the See also:United See also:Kingdom (1869), National Debts of the See also:World (1871), See also:Local See also:Government and Taxation (1874), and his purely See also:political writings included The Volunteer See also:Movement (186o), The Redistribution of Seats and the Counties (1866), See also:History of English Parties and Conservatism (1870), and The Political Progress of the Working Classes (1871) .

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