#3715, Gerald William BALFOUR
| Born | 09 Apr 1853 in Edinburgh |
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| Died | 14 Jan 1945 in Whittinghame, Haddingtonshire (later,1921 East Lothian) |
| Occupation | President of the Board of Trade | Education | Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (1st in Classical Tripos) Later he became a Fellow of Trinity and was awarded an honorary LLD by Cambridge University. |
| Father | James Maitland BALFOUR (05 Jan 1820 - 23 Feb 1856) |
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| Mother | Blanche Mary Harriet GASCOYNE-CECIL (1825 - 16 May 1872) |
Gerald was a senior politician who was the Conservative MP for Leeds Central from 1885 to1906. Hr served on the Commission on Labour and was private secretary to his brother Arthur when he was president of the Local Government Board from 1885 to 1886.
He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1895 to 1900 and president of the Board of Trade from 1900 to 1905 and president of the Local Government Board in 1905. He was admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland in 1895 and to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1905
After losing his seat in the Liberal landslide of 1906 he was chairman of the Commission on Lighthouse Administration and in 1908 became chairman of the Cambridge Committee of the Commission on Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
An affair with Welsh Liberal Politician Winifred Coombe Tennant resulted in a further child Augustus Henry.
Our portrait is by George Frederic Watts (1899)
Timeline
Born
Death of Father, James Maitland BALFOUR
Death of Mother, Blanche Mary Harriet GASCOYNE-CECIL
Married Elizabeth (Betty) Edith LYTTON
Birth of Daughter, Ruth BALFOUR
Birth of Daughter, Eleanor BALFOUR
Birth of Daughter, Mary Edith BALFOUR
Birth of Daughter, Evelyn (Eve) Barbara BALFOUR
Birth of Son, Robert Arthur Lytton BALFOUR
Birth of Daughter, Kathleen Constance Blanch BALFOUR
Death of wife, Elizabeth (Betty) LYTTON
Died 1945