George Balfour (1872 – 26 September 1941) was a British Conservative Party politician and engineer. He was of Scottish parentage where he also spent part...
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George Balfour may refer to: George Balfour (Conservative politician) (1872–1941), British Conservative Party politician and engineer George Balfour (Liberal...
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James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (/ˈbælfər, -fɔːr/, 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), was a British statesman and Conservative Party politician who was...
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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...
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the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Conservative Party...
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Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC, JP, DL (13 January 1849 – 6 July 1921) was a Scottish Unionist politician, banker and statesman...
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Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye, MC & Bar, PC (1 November 1897 – 21 September 1988), was a Conservative Party politician in the United...
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1970s. Lloyd George and Balfour remained in government until the collapse of the coalition in October 1922. Under the new Conservative government, attempts...
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George Wyndham, PC (29 August 1863 – 8 June 1913) was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls. Wyndham was...
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Kingdom. It was created in the 1945 Birthday Honours for the Conservative politician Harold Balfour. He represented the Isle of Thanet in the House of Commons...
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lordship has been held by the Bruce family. Lord Balfour of Burleigh was a Conservative politician and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative...
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Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Benjamin Disraeli, and Arthur Balfour; The conservative implications of writings by well-known authors such as Samuel...
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power after the end of the war in 1918, though Lloyd George was increasingly reliant on the Conservatives for support. After several scandals including allegations...
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brother-in-law, Arthur Balfour, was also a Conservative British prime minister from 1902 to 1905. However, in opposition to the Conservative politics of her...
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Arthur's brother and also a Conservative politician John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross (1837–1905), British politician Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976)...
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to Arthur Balfour at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). On...
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(31 March 1817 – 19 April 1876) was an English aristocrat and Conservative politician from the Lyttelton family. He was chairman of the Canterbury Association...
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senior British Conservative politician who became a peer on the death of his brother, former prime minister Arthur Balfour, in 1930. Balfour was the fourth...
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and helped organise the opposition inside the Unionist/Conservative Party. Nevertheless, Balfour, as party leader, introduced protectionist legislation...
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Woods, poet. Francis Nicholas Blundell, conservative politician. Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, conservative politician. Peter Hope, diplomat. James Fitzalan Hope...
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Joseph Chamberlain (redirect from Francis Chamberlain (Australian politician))
rivaled the Conservative National Union, and Chamberlain attempted to secure the League's representation inside Conservative Central Office. Balfour maintained...
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Sir John Balfour GCMG, GBE (1894–1983) was a British diplomat. Sir John was the son of the Conservative politician Charles Balfour, and the maternal grandson...
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Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI PC JP (17 December 1845 – 22 September 1927) was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early...
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Bonar Law (category Leaders of the Conservative Party (UK))
September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Balfour Haig, CMG, CVO (10 July 1840 – 15 April 1925) was a British Army officer, courtier, and Conservative Party political agent...
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James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (category Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies)
Salisbury was ADC to Edward VII, and George V until 1929. He served under his father and then his cousin Arthur Balfour as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of...
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The Souls (category Arthur Balfour)
FitzGerald. George Wyndham, (1863–1913), the Wyndhams' elder son, served in the Coldstream Guards, became private secretary to Arthur Balfour and in 1889...
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the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which declared the goal to create a Jewish "national home" in Palestine, and its opposition by the Conservative politician...
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Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee (category Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies)
November 1838 – 9 January 1906) was a Scottish businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was...
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1915), styled Viscount Chelsea from 1864 to 1873, was a British Conservative politician. Cadogan was the eldest son of Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan...
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