Robert Dudley Baxter

Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827, Doncaster – 1875, Frognal) was an English economist and statistician.

Life

Robert Dudley Baxter was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He studied law and entered his father's firm of Baxter & Co., solicitors, with which he was connected until his death. Though studiously attentive to business, he was enabled, as a member of the Statistical and other learned societies, to accomplish much useful economic work.

Works

His principal economic writings were:

• The Budget and the Income Tax, 1860
• Railway Extension and its Results, 1866
• The Panic of 1866; With its Lessons on the Currency Act, 1866
• The National Income, 1868
• The Taxation of the United Kingdom, 1869
• National Debts of the World, 1871
• Local Government and Taxation, 1874

His purely political writings included:

• The Volunteer Movement, 1860
• The Redistribution of Seats and the Counties, 1866
• History of English Parties and Conservatism, 1870
• The Political Progress of the Working Classes, 1871

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baxter, Robert Dudley". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Walford, Cornelius (1885). "Baxter, Robert Dudley" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Feuchtwanger, E. J. "Baxter, Robert Dudley (1827–1875)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1735. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)