BAXTER

baxter, robert dudley (1827-1875), english economist and statistician, was born at doncaster in 1827. he was educated privately and at trinity college, cambridge. he studied law and entered his father's firm of baxter & co., solicitors, with which he was connected till 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), and his purely political writings included _the volunteer movement_ (1860), _the redistribution of seats and the counties_ (1866), _history of english parties and conservatism_ (1870), and _the political progress of the working classes_ (1871).