
In 1982, he was appointed a CBE in recognition of his work for the bank.

He then became involved in the Savings Bank movement and was at one stage vice-chairman of the Savings Bank Association. He returned to Scotland to enter his father's legal firm and acted for a time as Fiscal to the Society of Writers to the Signet. Like his father and uncles, he attended the Edinburgh Academy, after which he went up to Balliol College, Oxford to read history. His brother was Graeme Haldane and he married Janet Macrae Simpson-Smith. He was the son of Edith (née Nelson) and Sir William Haldane, grandson of James Alexander Haldane, and nephew of Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane.

Archibald Richard Burdon Haldane CBE (18 November 1900 – 18 October 1982) was a Scottish social historian and writer.
