Arthur James Balfour was born July 25, 1848, in East Lothian, Scotland.
Arthur was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Became the Conservative MP for Hertford in 1874.
Balfour served as Prime Minister from 1902-1905.
Arthur James Balfour died March 19, 1930, at Surrey.
Balfour was made LL.D. of the University of Edinburgh in 1881; of the University of St Andrews in 1885; of Cambridge University in 1888; of Dublin and Glasgow Universities in 1891; Lord Rector of St Andrews University in 1886; of Glasgow University in 1890; Chancellor of Edinburgh University in 1891; member of the senate London University in 1888; and DCL of Oxford University in 1891.
He was president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1904, and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1888. He was known from early life as a cultured musician, and became an enthusiastic golf player, having been captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1894-1895. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1914 to 1915.
Balfour was also a member of the Society for Psychical Research, a society dedicated to studying psychic and paranormal phenomena, and its president from 1892-1894.
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