| Authorised form of name | Balfour; Arthur James (1848 - 1930); 1st Earl of Balfour |
| Dates | 1848 - 1930 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Whittingehame, East Lothian, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 25 July 1848 |
| Place of death | Fisher's Hill, his brother's house near Woking, Surrey |
| Date of death | 19/03/1930 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Whittingehame, East Lothian |
| Occupation | Statesman |
| Activity | Education:
Eton; Trinity College, Cambridge
Career:
MP for Hertford (1874-1885); MP for Manchester East (1885-1906); MP for City of London (1906-1922); Private Secretary to his uncle, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (FRS 1869) (1878-1880); Privy Councillor (1885); President, Local Government Board (1885-1886); Leader of the House of Commons; Prime Minister (1902-1905); Foreign Secretary (1916-1919)
Honours:
OM 1916; KG 1922; Earl 1922
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/01/1888 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1912-1914 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingham, East Lothian ,and his wife Blanche, sister of Robert, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (FRS 1869); elder brother of Francis Maitland Balfour (FRS 1878); brother-in-law of John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (FRS 1873); unmarried |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1930 vol 129 pp xv-xxxiii, plate, by Rayleigh
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1931 vol 107 pp iv-xxii, plate, by Rayleigh
References:
R V Jones, 'Alfred Ewing and "Room 40"' in NR 1979-80 vol 34 pp 65-90
Vanity Fair 01 December 1880, 24 September 1887, 30 November 1893 (group), 01 December 1898, 27 January 1910 |
| Code | NA8114 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000213 | Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour | nd |
| NLB/2/328 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honorable Arthur James Balfour | 27 April 1888 |
| NLB/3/699 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to F J Woods, Bass Rock Hotel, North Berwick | 19 September 1889 |
| NLB/14/378 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 March 1897 |
| NLB/17/421 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to The Marquis of Salisbury [Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil], Arthur James Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, George Joachim Goschen, Sir John Eldon Gorst, the Duke of Devonshire [Spencer Compton Cavendish], the Earl of Halsbury [Hardinge Stanley Giffard], and Viscount Richard Assheton Cross | 27 October 1898 |
| NLB/47/848 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to the Right Honourable A [Arthur] J [James] Balfour FRS | 21 April 1913 |
| NLB/55/729 | Copy letter from [Dr.] Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Right Honourable, Arthur [James] Balfour, O.M., FRS | 09 August 1918 |
| EC/1888/01 | Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/005599 | Swinton, Alan Archibald Campbell | 1896 |
| IM/000214 | Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour | September 1999 |
| VF/02 | Portrait of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour by 'Xit' | 27 January 1910 |
| MS/603/1/43 | Letter from Arthur James Balfour, Admiralty, Whitehall, to [Joseph] Larmor | 29 May 1915 |
| MS/603/1/40 | Letter from Arthur James Balfour, 4 Carlton Gardens, Pall Mall, to [Joseph] Larmor | 4 August 1908 |
| MS/603/1/42 | Letter from Arthur James Balfour, Admiralty, Whitehall, to [Joseph] Larmor | 28 May 1915 |
| MS/603/1/41 | Letter from Arthur James Balfour, 4 Carlton Gardens, Pall Mall, to [Joseph] Larmor | 24 November 1908 |