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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 /, [1] 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.
- Balfour Declaration of 1917
The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November...
- Earl of Balfour
Earl of Balfour is a title in the Peerage of the United...
- Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale
Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale, GBE, JP (9 January 1873...
- Balfour Declaration of 1917
The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
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.
Jul 21, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Earl of Balfour is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1922 for Conservative politician Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919. [1] Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour. The earldom was created with special remainder, failing male issue of his own ...
Arthur Balfour returned to government in 1916 to serve as Lloyd George's Foreign Secretary.
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Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale, GBE, JP (9 January 1873 – 7 July 1957), known as Sir Arthur Balfour (1923 -1929) and Sir Arthur Balfour, 1st Baronet (1929 - 1935), was a British steel manufacturer.
