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Arthur Balfour

1848 - 1930

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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (; 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of the cabinet, which supported a "home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. Entering Parliament in 1874, Balfour achieved prominence as Chief Secretary for Ireland, in which position he suppressed agrarian unrest whilst taking measures against absentee landlords. He opposed Irish Home Rule, saying there could be no half-way house between Ireland remaining within the United Kingdom or becoming independent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Balfour is the 2,548th most popular politician (down from 1,705th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 364th in 2019) and the 125th most popular British Politician.

Arthur Balfour was a British Prime Minister from 1902-1905. He is most famous for his Balfour Declaration, which was a letter he wrote to Lord Rothschild in 1917 that stated the British government's support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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Among politicians, Arthur Balfour ranks 2,548 out of 19,576. Before him are Soong Mei-ling, Himiko, Tiglath-Pileser I, Sviatopolk I of Kiev, François Ravaillac, and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern. After him are Julius Martov, Abbas II of Persia, Patrick Leahy, Harold Macmillan, Emperor Renzong of Song, and Theodahad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Arthur Balfour ranks 14. Before him are Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustave Caillebotte, Hugo de Vries, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, and Albert I, Prince of Monaco. After him are Tōgō Heihachirō, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Wilhelm Windelband, and Stepan Makarov. Among people deceased in 1930, Arthur Balfour ranks 22. Before him are Miguel Primo de Rivera, Cosima Wagner, Wilfrid Voynich, Victoria of Baden, Alfred von Tirpitz, and Horst Wessel. After him are Siegfried Wagner, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Sakichi Toyoda, Adolf von Harnack, and Adolf Engler.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Balfour ranks 641 out of 8,785. Before him are Daphne du Maurier (1907), Walter Raleigh (1554), Nick Mason (1944), Angus Young (1955), Ron Dennis (1947), and Bob Hoskins (1942). After him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), George Graham (1944), Harold Macmillan (1894), Muriel Spark (1918), Donald Pleasence (1919), and Eduard Suess (1831).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Balfour ranks 125. Before him are Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), John Turner (1929), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), David II of Scotland (1324), Edwin of Northumbria (586), and Eystein II of Norway (1125). After him are Harold Macmillan (1894), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), James Wilson (1742), Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411), and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390).

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