1848 - 1930 (82 years)
Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1848 - 1930 (82 years)
Birth |
1848 |
East Lothian, Scotland |
Died |
1930 |
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Father |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Mother |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Mother |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
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1853 - 1945 (91 years)
Birth |
9 Apr 1853 |
Died |
14 Jan 1945 |
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Father |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Mother |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
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Family |
Elizabeth Edith Bulwer-Lytton, b. 12 Jun 1867, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England |
Children |
| 1. Eleanor Balfour |
+ | 2. Eleanor Balfour |
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1867 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
12 Jun 1867 |
Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Earl Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, b. 1831, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England |
Mother |
Edith Villiers, b. 15 Sep 1841 |
Married |
1864 |
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Family |
Earl Gerald William Balfour, b. 9 Apr 1853 |
Children |
| 1. Eleanor Balfour |
+ | 2. Eleanor Balfour |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Mother |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Mother |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Mother |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
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1854 - 1911 (56 years)
Birth |
8 Jun 1854 |
Died |
14 Feb 1911 |
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Father |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Mother |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
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Family |
Frances Campbell, b. 22 Feb 1858 |
Married |
12 May 1879 |
Children |
| 1. Joan Eleanor Campbell Balfour |
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1858 - 1931 (73 years)
Birth |
22 Feb 1858 |
Died |
25 Feb 1931 |
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Father |
Duke George Douglas Campbell, b. 30 Apr 1823 |
Mother |
Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, b. Abt 1824 |
Married |
31 Jul 1844 |
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Family |
Col. Eustace James Anthony Balfour, b. 8 Jun 1854 |
Married |
12 May 1879 |
Children |
| 1. Joan Eleanor Campbell Balfour |
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1820 - 1856 (36 years)
Birth |
5 Jan 1820 |
Died |
23 Feb 1856 |
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Father |
James Balfour |
Mother |
Eleanor Maitland |
Married |
1815 |
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Family |
Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoigne-Cecil |
Children |
| 1. Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour, b. 1848, East Lothian, Scotland |
| 2. Cecil Charles Balfour |
+ | 3. Earl Gerald William Balfour, b. 9 Apr 1853 |
| 4. Eleanor Mildred Balfour |
| 5. Evelyn Georgina Balfour |
| 6. Alice Blanche Balfour |
+ | 7. Col. Eustace James Anthony Balfour, b. 8 Jun 1854 |
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- 1872
Died |
16 May 1872 |
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Father |
Marquess James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, b. 17 Apr 1791, Arlington Street, London, Middlesex, England |
Mother |
Frances Mary Gascoyne, b. 25 Jan 1802 |
Married |
2 Feb 1821 |
Mayfair, London, Middlesex, England |
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Family |
James Maitland Balfour, b. 5 Jan 1820 |
Children |
| 1. Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour, b. 1848, East Lothian, Scotland |
| 2. Cecil Charles Balfour |
+ | 3. Earl Gerald William Balfour, b. 9 Apr 1853 |
| 4. Eleanor Mildred Balfour |
| 5. Evelyn Georgina Balfour |
| 6. Alice Blanche Balfour |
+ | 7. Col. Eustace James Anthony Balfour, b. 8 Jun 1854 |
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Name |
Arthur James Balfour |
Prefix |
Prime Minister |
Birth |
1848 |
East Lothian, Scotland |
Gender |
Male |
Prominent People |
1902 |
British Prime Minister |
Death |
1930 |
Siblings |
6 Siblings |
| 1. Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour, b. 1848, East Lothian, Scotland d. 1930 (Age 82 years) | | 2. Cecil Charles Balfour d. Yes, date unknown | + | 3. Earl Gerald William Balfour, b. 9 Apr 1853 d. 14 Jan 1945 (Age 91 years) ▻ Elizabeth Edith Bulwer-Lytton | | 4. Eleanor Mildred Balfour d. Yes, date unknown | | 5. Evelyn Georgina Balfour d. Yes, date unknown | | 6. Alice Blanche Balfour d. Yes, date unknown | + | 7. Col. Eustace James Anthony Balfour, b. 8 Jun 1854 d. 14 Feb 1911 (Age 56 years) ▻ Frances Campbell, m. 12 May 1879 | |
Person ID |
I132674 |
Geneagraphie |
Links To |
This person is also Arthur Balfour at Wikipedia |
Last Modified |
30 Aug 2000 |
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Notes |
- Earl of Balfour
Prime Minister of England
Arthur Balfour was born on the family's Scottish estate in East Lothian . Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the House of Commons in 1874 as the Conservative MP for Hertford.
In 1878 Balfour became private secretary to his uncle, the Marquess of Salisbury, who was Foreign Secretary in the Conservative government headed by Benjamin Disraeli.
In the 1885 General Election Balfour was elected to represent the East Manchester constituency. The Marquess of Salisbury, who was now Prime Minister, appointed him as his Secretary for Scotland. Other posts during the next few years included Chief Secretary of Ireland (1887), First Lord of the Treasury (1892) and leader of the House of Commons (1892).
Balfour replaced his uncle as Prime Minister in 1902. The most important events during his premiership included the 1902 Education Act and the ending of the Boer War. The topic of Tariff Reform split Balfour's government and when he resigned in 1905, Edward VII invited Henry Campbell-Bannerman to form a government. Campbell-Bannerman accepted and in the 1906 General Election that followed the Liberal Party had a landslide victory.
Balfour remained leader of the Conservative Party until he was replaced by Andrew Bonar Law in 1911. He returned to government when in 1915 Herbert Asquith offered him the post of First Lord of the Admiralty in Britain's First World War coalition government. The following year, David Lloyd George, the new Prime Minister, appointed him as Foreign Secretary, and consequently was responsible for the Balfour Declaration in 1917 which promised Zionists a national home in Palestine.
Balfour left Lloyd George's government in 1919 but returned to office when he served as Lord President of the Council (1925-29) in theConservative government headed by Stanley Baldwin.
(1) Henry Hamilton Fyfe was a reporter on The Times when he first met Arthur Balfour.
I saw that Balfour was not a great man. He had charm and wit; he could be energetic when he chose, but he chose very seldom; he had a marvellously acute mind, but he feared the logic of its conclusions. He was truly bored by almost everything, and he was born lazy. I recall one of his official secretaries telling me furiously how Balfour was primed for a critical debate, given sheaves of notes, told what his line of argument must be. "And then," spluttered Robert Morant, "he stuffed all the papers in his pocket without looking at them, and made a speech that missed all the essential points." After such episodes he would be more than usually charming, and would ask with a smile and a slight lift of his shoulders, "What does it matter?"
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