arthur james balfour meaning

• Noun: Arthur James Balfour
  1. English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)
     - Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

  Type of: national leader, solon, statesman

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Examples

1. Eton has produced nineteen British the fifth Lord Rosebery, Arthur James Balfour, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, and David Cameron.
2. Milner, who was then spending a brief holiday in Europe, was urged by Arthur James Balfour to take the vacant post of secretary of state for the colonies.
3. The town was named after the English Lord Arthur James Balfour, writer of the Balfour Declaration, which embraced Zionist plans for a Jewish " national home " in Palestine.
4. British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote in 1918, " but I am quite clear it is all-important for us that this oil should be available ."
5. A condition of the endowment was that the first appointee to the chair would be chosen jointly by the Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and the former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour.