Earl of Balfour

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Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
Coat of arms of the Earls of Balfour

Earl of Balfour is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Bestowal and Succession

It was created on May 5, 1922 for the conservative politician Arthur Balfour . He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919. When the title was awarded, it was determined that if there were no male heirs, his younger brother Gerald William Balfour, then his nephew Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour and then nephew Oswald Herbert Campbell Balfour should inherit the right to the title. The latter two were the sons of his late younger brother Colonel Eustace James Anthony Balfour.

Balfour remained unmarried, so that his younger brother Gerald succeeded him as the second earl. He was also a conservative politician and held the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland , he was President of the Board of Trade and the Local Government Board. With the death of his grandson, the fourth earl, who had four daughters but no son, his line also died out, so that his second cousin succeeded him as the current bearer of the earl dignity. He is the grandson of the aforementioned Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour, nephew of the first earl.

The family lives at Burpham Lodge near Arundel in Sussex .

Subordinate title

Along with the earliest dignity, Balfour was awarded the title Viscount Traprain , of Wittingehame in the County of Haddington in 1922 . The title is used as a courtesy title by the Earl's Heir Apparent .

Earls of Balfour (1922)

Title heir ( Heir Presumptive ) is the brother of the current Earl Charles George Yule Balfour (* 1951), whose heir is his son George Eustace Charles Balfour (* 1990)

See also

literature

  • Charles Kidd, David Williamson (Eds.): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. St Martin's Press, New York 1990.

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