He was born in
Hatcham,
Surrey, the son of the barrister and newspaper proprietor
Alexander Haldane (son of Scottish cleric
James Haldane) and Emma Hardcastle. just before his marriage on 23 August 1864 to Anna Elizabeth Chinnery (died 30 November 1907), only daughter of the Reverend Sir Nicholas Chinnery,
Baronet of Flintfield,
County Cork. He changed his name again by Royal Licence on 2 September 1878 to Chinnery-Haldane. ==Anglican ministry==