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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), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Balfour has received more than 1,725,923 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Arthur Balfour is the 2,090th most popular politician (down from 2,009th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 495th in 2019) and the 88th 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

Among politicians, Arthur Balfour ranks 2,090 out of 15,577Before him are Willi Stoph, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Kavad I, Al-Mahdi, Robert I, Duke of Parma, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin. After him are Vasily II of Moscow, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Eric V of Denmark, Nogai Khan, Stamford Raffles, and Gabriel Bethlen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Arthur Balfour ranks 14Before him are Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Hugo de Vries, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Robert I, Duke of Parma. After him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Johann Palisa, Viktor Vasnetsov, Wilhelm Windelband, Wyatt Earp, and Aleksey Kuropatkin. Among people deceased in 1930, Arthur Balfour ranks 20Before him are D. H. Lawrence, Joan Gamper, Alfred von Tirpitz, Lon Chaney, Horst Wessel, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. After him are Siegfried Wagner, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Sakichi Toyoda, Wilfrid Voynich, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, and Adolf von Harnack.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Balfour ranks 480 out of 7,765Before him are William Godwin (1756), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Edmund Ironside (993), John Cleese (1939), Peter Brook (1925), and Austen Chamberlain (1863). After him are Thomas Wolsey (1473), Eadwig (940), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), G. E. Moore (1873), and Arthur Eddington (1882).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Arthur Balfour ranks 88Before him are Robert II of Scotland (1316), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), James Callaghan (1912), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Edmund Ironside (993), and Austen Chamberlain (1863). After him are Eadwig (940), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779), Stanley Baldwin (1867), and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771).