Balfour
Balfour names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Balfour ARTHUR JAMES, a British statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTHUR JAMES, a British statesman, born in Scotland, July 25, 1848; educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge; entered Parliament in 1874; was private secretary to his uncle, the Marquis of Salisbury, in 1878-1880, and accompanied him to the Berlin Congress; President of the Local Government Board in 1885; Secretary for Scotland in 1886; Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887-1891; member of the Gold and Silver Commission in 1887- 1888; First Lord of the Treasury in 1891-1892; became the leader of the Conservative opposition in the House of Commons in 1892. He was Prime Minister 1902-1905. He carried through the Education Act (1902) and the Irish Land Act (1904), and created the Committee of National Defense. Chamberlain's resignation as Colonial Secretary was followed by his campaign for Colonial preference and a protective tariff and led to the defeat of the Unionists in 1906. Bal- ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR four lost his seat for East Manchester, but was immediately returned from London. In 1911 Balfour resigned to Bonar Law leadership of the opposition. In 1915 he joined Asquith's coalition cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, and was Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1916- 1919. In 1917 he visited the United States as a member of the British Commission. He was one of the British repat the Peace Congress of resentatives Versailles. In October, 1919, he was made Lord President of the Council. His publications include "A Defense of Philosophic Doubt" (1879); "Essays and Addresses" (1893); "The Foundations of Belief" (1895); "Insular Trade" (1903); " (1909); " "Criticism and Beauty Theism and Humanism" (1915).
Balfour ARTHUR JAMES
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTHUR JAMES, created Earl of Balfour and Viscount Traprain of Whittingehame , April 12, 1922. in the cabinet of Premier Poincaré,
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's, writing in 1921, lists Balfour's Foreign Office years (1916-1919) without mentioning the letter of 2 November 1917 to Lord Rothschild pledging British support for "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine — the document now universally called the Balfour Declaration, and the single thing for which he is remembered outside Britain. His career continued past the account: he led the British delegation to the Washington naval conference of 1921-22, was made an earl in 1922 as the second entry notes, and returned as Lord President of the Council under Baldwin from 1925 to 1929, when a second "Balfour Declaration" — the 1926 Imperial Conference formula declaring the Dominions equal in status to Britain — took his name. He died on 19 March 1930 at Fisher's Hill, Woking, unmarried, the earldom passing to his brother Gerald. His philosophical books, which Collier's lists respectfully, are now little read, while the 1917 declaration remains contested a century on.
Written for this edition, 2026.