Balfour, Arthur James, first earl of Balfour (1848–1930), prime minister and philosopher

by Ruddock Mackay and H. C. G. Matthew

  • Education
  • Philosophy, society, and the Souls
  • Back-bench politician, 1874–1885
  • Two early portfolios, 1885–1887
  • Chief secretary for Ireland, 1887–1891
  • Leading in the Commons, 1891–1902
  • Constructive work, 1891–1892 and 1895–1902
  • Prime minister
  • Defence policy in the Balfour government
  • Chamberlain, tariff reform, and the Unionist débâcle
  • The end of Balfour's premiership
  • Unionist leader in opposition, 1906–1911
  • Philosophical intermission
  • First lord of the Admiralty, 1915–1916
  • Foreign secretary, 1916–1919
  • The Balfour declaration, 1917
  • The end of the First World War
  • Lord president of the council, 1919–1922, and Unionist politics
  • Non-political life in the 1920s
  • Again lord president, 1925–1929
  • Death
  • Balfour's image
  • Assessment

References

See also

Themes

  • Hotel Cecil
  • Souls
  • Fourth Party
  • British Academy
  • Secretaries and secretaries of state for Scotland
  • Order of Merit
  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs
  • Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
  • general election of 1906
  • Metaphysical Society
  • Leaders of the Conservative and the Conservative and Unionist parties

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives
  • Who Was Who

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