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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister and philosopher

Sitter in 113 portraits
Balfour first made his mark as a philosopher, publishing A Defence of Philosophic Doubt in 1879. He entered politics in 1874 through the patronage of his uncle, Lord Salisbury. He succeeded Salisbury as prime minister in 1902 but was unable to keep together a party divided by issues of Free Trade and Protectionism. He resigned in December 1905. During the First World War, he worked as First Lord of the Admiralty and, from 1916 to 1919, as Foreign Secretary. The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 gave British support to 'the establishment in Palestine of a home for the Jewish people'. Balfour continued in politics until the age of eighty: he had served for twenty-seven years as a member of the cabinet.

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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 17 July 1908
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'Visit of French Senators and Deputies and their Wives to the Houses of Parliament'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1908
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'Visit of French Senators and Deputies and their Wives to the Houses of Parliament'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1908
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'Visit of French Members of Parliament to the Houses of Parliament'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1908
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'Visit of French Members of Parliament to the Houses of Parliament'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1908
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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 17 July 1908
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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

probably by Roland Parker Stone, for Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 17 July 1908
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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

probably by Roland Parker Stone, for Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 17 July 1908
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print in card window mount, 29 June 1909
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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

by Roland Parker Stone, for Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 29 June 1909
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'Sir Benjamin Stone's Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 29 June 1909
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'Luncheon Party to the President and Members of the Russian Duma at the House of Commons'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 June 1909
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'Luncheon Party to the Delegates of the Imperial Ottomon Parliament at the House of Commons'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1909
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'Luncheon Party to the Delegates of the Imperial Ottomon Parliament at the House of Commons'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1909
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; Gilbert Talbot

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1914
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print, 1914
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1914
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, 1914
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print on photographer's mount, 1914
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Category
Politics, Government and Diplomacy
Scholarship and Research
Groups
British Prime Ministers
The Souls
Place
East Lothian