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Added: Aug 6, 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 11435. Source citation. British Prime Minister. He served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1902 to 1905. He later served as British Foreign Secretary during much of World War I (1916 to 1919). In 1917 he issued what became known as the Balfour Declaration, which stated British claim for the ...
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL ( / ˈbælfər, - fɔːr /, [1] 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued ...
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Arthur Balfour (1848–1930) Whittingehame Church, Whittingehame, East Lothian: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) Meigle churchyard, Meigle, Perth and Kinross, Angus: H. H. Asquith (1852–1928) All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire: David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
NamePlace Of Burial Or IntermentSir Robert Walpole (1676–1745)Church of St Martin, Houghton, Norfolk ...The Estate Chapel, Compton Wynyates, ...Henry Pelham (1694–1754)All Saints' Church, Laughton, East Sussex ...All Saints' Church, Laughton, East Sussex ...brother Francis Maitland Balfour. 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. He was prime minister from 1902 to 1905, and, as foreign ...
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Arthur James Balfour was born on July 25, 1848, at Whittingehame House, East Lothian, Scotland, the eldest son of James Maitland Balfour (1820–1856) and Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil (1825–1872). His father was a Scottish MP, as was his grandfather James; his mother, a member of the Cecil family descended from Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of ...
In 1891 Balfour became First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the Commons. He regained the same positions on the Conservatives’ re-election in 1895. When Lord Salisbury retired, Balfour became ...
Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) A.J. Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was born at Whittingehame (also spelt Whittingham or Whittinghame) on 25 July 1848. His parents were James Maitland Balfour and Lady Blanche – second daughter of the 2nd Marquis of Salisbury. An intellectual and a philosopher, he had a long career in politics, becoming ...
