Robert Dudley Baxter

Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827, Doncaster – 1875, Frognal) was an English economist and statistician.

Robert Dudley Baxter 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