Balfour House is an antebellum mansion located at the corner of Crawford Street and Cherry Street in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Built in 1835, it was the...
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7 and 8 Balfour Place are a pair of Grade II listed houses in Balfour Place, Mayfair, London W1, on the corner with Mount Street. No 7 is also known as...
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL (/ˈbælfər, -fɔːr/, 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman and Conservative...
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North Finchley (section Balfour House bombing)
branch of the Northern line. On 26 July 1994 a bomb exploded outside Balfour House, a prominent building on North Finchley High Street and location of...
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Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in the County of Kinross, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1607 for Sir Michael Balfour. He was succeeded...
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Elizabeth Edith Balfour, Countess of Balfour (née Lady Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton; 12 June 1867 – 28 March 1942) was a British suffragette, politician, and...
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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment...
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Balfour v Balfour [1919] 2 KB 571 is a leading English contract law case. It held that there is a rebuttable presumption against an intention to create...
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Twenty civilians were injured. A second bomb was exploded outside Balfour House, Finchley, premises occupied by the UJIA, a registered British charity...
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with diamond or lodestone. In 1912, The Metallurgo Syndicate, Ltd., of Balfour House, used "Adamantium" (with a capital 'A') as a product brand when they...
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John Hutton Balfour FRSE FRS FRCSE FLS MWS (15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first...
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Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, PC (9 April 1853 – 14 January 1945), known as Gerald Balfour or The Rt Hon. G. W. Balfour until 1930, was...
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Cambridge. Balfour inherited his father's neo-classical mansion Whittingehame House and his Highland estate in Ross-shire, as well as a house in Grosvenor...
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2002) Gloria Elizabeth Balfour (b. 11 November 2005) Olympia Rose Balfour (b. 27 June 2007) Georgia Veronika Stefania Balfour (b. 10 September 2010) In...
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Clan Bethune (section The Bethunes of Balfour)
Bethune of Balfour is an ancient Scottish family who from about 1375 to 1888 were lairds of Balfour in Fife, an estate in the Lowlands parish of Markinch...
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James Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour (23 December 1925 – 27 June 2003), styled Viscount Traprain between 1945 and 1968, was a British peer. Balfour was the...
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Balfour Beatty plc (/ˌbælfʊ ˈbiːtiː/) is an international infrastructure group based in the United Kingdom with capabilities in construction services...
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Unionist government, 1895–1905 (redirect from Balfour Ministry)
Arthur Balfour, became Leader of the House of Commons, but various major posts went to the Liberal Unionists, most notably the Leader of the House of Lords...
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Earl of Balfour and Lady Tessa Fitzalan-Howard. Balfour is a niece of the 18th Duke of Norfolk. Balfour's father is the 5th Earl of Balfour (descended...
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Lytton Balfour, 3rd Earl of Balfour (31 December 1902 – 28 November 1968), styled Viscount Traprain between 1930 and 1945, was a Scottish peer. Balfour was...
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British Commonwealth as independent states. The shift was recognised in the Balfour Declaration of 1926, the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, and the...
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Attlee House of Baden-Powell House of Bagot House of Bailey House of Baldwin House of Balfour House of Bannerman House of Barclay House of Baring House of...
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townsite. Likely named after Arthur Balfour, rival theories have existed. The next year Busk opened the Balfour House Hotel on his 200-acre (81 ha) orchard...
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Balfour Castle is a historic building on the southwest of Shapinsay, Orkney Islands. Though built around an older structure that dates at least from the...
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Rayside-Balfour (1996 census population 16,050) was a town in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000. It is now part of the city of Greater...
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Jabez Spencer Balfour (4 September 1843 – 23 February 1916) was an English businessman, British Liberal Party politician and fraudster. Balfour was born in...
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individual, Balfour succumbed to alcoholism in his fifties. This brought about his early death. Balfour was born at Whittingehame House in East Lothian...
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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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Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross PC DL (born 11 July 1837 – 22 January 1905) was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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Beit Aghion (category Houses completed in 1938)
Aghion House), also known as Beit Rosh HaMemshala (Hebrew: בית ראש הממשלה, lit. House of the Head of Government) or metonymously as Balfour is the official...
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