Lord Haldane was elected the Association's first President.

He had heard it from the Prime Minister "who told me that Lord Haldane told him so."

In a parting, "valedictory" letter to Lord Haldane, he wrote:

We have a bad army, because it would be a snub to Lord Haldane to have a good army.

Lord Haldane and the Territorial Army, 1967.

In 1913 Lord Haldane created a committee to draw up a draft bill reforming the law of indictments, which became the Indictments Act 1915.

Lord Haldane had proposed the idea of a federal University as a compromise but it failed to increase support.

Lord Haldane was a practising barrister in 1901 when he recorded:

Ltd. through the judgment of Lord Haldane.

He was replaced by Lord Haldane, who was serving for a second time and was sworn in on 25 January.