Balfour, Arthur James ♂

Education

LL.D. 21.1.1885. Rector of the University 1886 -1889.

Birth/childhood

Born 25.7.1848 eldest son and 4th child of James Maitland Balfour of Whittinghame and Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil.

Educated at Eton.

Career

Educated at Cambridge University.

M.P. Hertford 1874 - 1885, East Manchester 1886 - 1906, City of London 1906 - 1922. Secretary for Scotland 1886. Prime Minister 1902 - 1905. Created first Earl of Balfour 1922. [Politician]

Rector of the University 1886-1889. [St Andrews University]

Publications

A Defence of Philosophc Doubt (London: Macmillan, 1879)

Decadence: Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, delivered at Newnham College, January 25, 1908 (Cambridge: CUP, 1908)

Theism and Humanism: being the Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915)

etc.

Death

Died 19.3.1930.

Sources

• DNB)