Robert Adam Philips Haldane Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown (28 May 1841 – 5 June 1918), styled Viscount Duncan from 1859 to 1867, was a British

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 Liberal

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 politician.

Biography

Camperdown was the eldest son of Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown

Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown

Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown , styled Viscount Duncan between 1831 and 1859, was a British nobleman and politician....

, and his wife Juliana (née Philips), and was educated at Eton

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 and Balliol College, Oxford

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. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1867 and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords

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. The following year he was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords) in William Ewart Gladstone

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's first administration

Liberal Government 1868-1874

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, a post he held until 1870, and then served as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty

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from 1870 to 1874.

Lord Camperdown died in June 1918, aged 77. He never married and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother George.