E. S. P. Haynes

Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes (26 September 1877 – 5 January 1949), best known as E. S. P. Haynes was a British lawyer and writer.

Biography

The son of a London solicitor, Haynes was a King's Scholar at Eton College 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. His daughter was novelist Renée Haynes.

Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State is dedicated to Haynes.

Skepticism

Haynes was an atheist. He was also a rationalist, his book The Belief in Personal Immortality (1913) was skeptical of the claims of psychical research and life after death.

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).

References

Further reading
Renée Haynes. (1987). Mistakes about E. S. P. Haynes. The Chesterton Review  13 (3): 420-421.

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