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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL (/ ˈ b æ l f ər,-f ɔːr /, 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.
Arthur James Balfour, 1st earl of Balfour (born July 25, 1848, Whittingehame, East Lothian, Scotland—died March 19, 1930, Woking, Surrey, England) was a British statesman who maintained a position of power in the British Conservative Party for 50 years.
Arthur Balfour, who first served as prime minister of the United Kingdom, and more importantly, later as foreign secretary during the government of David Lloyd George, is the author of...
Dec 14, 2017 · The Balfour Declaration was a letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild, in which he expressed the British government’s support for a Jewish...
He is perhaps best known for authoring the ‘Balfour Declaration’ of 1917, when he was serving as Foreign Secretary, which supported the establishment of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine....
Nov 2, 2017 · The British peer Arthur Balfour barely makes an appearance in UK schoolbooks, but many Israeli and Palestinian students could tell you about him. His Balfour Declaration, made on 2 November...
Balfour, who had known Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann since 1906, opposed Russian mistreatment of Jews and increasingly supported Zionism as a program for European Jews to settle in Palestine.
In 1891, he made him Leader of the House of Commons, which was a key role for a Prime Minister sitting in the Lords. Balfour was also the last man to hold the position of First Lord of the Treasury, and to live in 10 Downing Street, when not the head of the government.
Arthur James Balfour. (1848—1930) prime minister and philosopher. Quick Reference. (b. Whittingehame, East Lothian, 25 July 1848; d. Woking, 19 Mar. 1930)
Arthur Balfour (1848-1930) was a Tory politician and philosopher, with an interest in psychical research. He is associated in particular with the Palm Sunday case, a notable episode in the mediumship research known as the Cross-Correspondences.
