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