Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG OM PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905.
The Earl of Balfour | |
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| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
| In office 11 July 1902 – 5 December 1905 | |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Succeeded by | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
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| Born | 25 July 1848 Whittingehame, East Lothian, Scotland |
| Died | 19 March 1930 (aged 81) Woking, Surrey, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
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He was minister of Foreign Affairs from 1916 to 1919. In this capacity he wrote the so-called Balfour Declaration in 1917.
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Lord Balfour's childhood home. East Lothian, Scotland.
Balfour early in his career
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930)
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Balfour in 1891, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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Balfour and Winston Churchill in 1911
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Balfour in Mandatory Palestine with Vera and Chaim Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow and others in 1925
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Portrait by Philip de László, 1908
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1967 Israel stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration