E. S. P. Haynes


Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes, 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 was skeptical of the claims of psychical research and life after death.

Publications