Robert Dudley Baxter

Robert Dudley Baxter (1827 - 1875) was an English economist and statistician born in Doncaster. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He studied law and entered his fathers 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. His principal economic writings were;

*"The Budget and the Income Tax" (1860),
*"Railway Extension and its Results" (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).

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