Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes (26 September 1877 – 5 January 1949) was a British

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 lawyer and writer.

The son of a London solicitor, Haynes was a King's Scholar

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 at Eton College

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 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.

Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...

's The Servile State

The Servile State

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is dedicated to Haynes.

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).