"2nd Earl of Balfour" Gerald Balfour Clipped Signature For Sale

Up for sale the "2nd Earl of Balfour" Gerald Balfour Clipped Signature. 

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Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of

Balfour, PC (9

April 1853 – 14 January 1945), known as Gerald Balfour or The

Rt Hon. G. W. Balfour until 1930, was a senior became a peer on the death of his brother, former prime minister Arthur Balfour, in 1930. Balfour was the fourth son of James Maitland and Lady Blanche Cecil, daughter of James

Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury. Two Prime

Ministers were immediate relations: Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, his elder brother,

and Lord Salisbury, his uncle. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge,

where he gained 1st Class Honours in the as Conservative Member

of Parliament for Leeds

Central from 1885 to 1906. During this time he was a member of

Commission on Labour, and private secretary to his brother, Arthur Balfour, when he was president of the Local Government Board from 1885 to

1886. He served as Chief Secretary for

Ireland from 1895 to 1900, as president of the Board of

Trade from 1900 to 1905 and as president of

the Local Government Board in 1905. He was admitted to

the Privy Council of Ireland in

1895, and to the Privy

Council of the United Kingdom in 1905. After losing his seat in

the House of Commons in the Liberal landslide of 1906,

he was chairman of the Commission on Lighthouse Administration in 1908, and

chairman of the Cambridge Committee of the Commission on Oxford and Cambridge

Universities. He succeeded his brother Arthur as second Earl of Balfour in

1930, according to a special remainder in the letters patent and took a seat in the House of Lords. During his first spell at the Houses of

Parliament, Balfour received an honorary LLD from Cambridge University, and was a fellow of Trinity. From 1901 Balfour

lived at Fisher's Hill House, a large home which he had built by Lutyens in Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, also living in the rural hamlet by

1911 were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of

State for the Colonies (1903–1905) who married into his wider

family and the Duke of Sutherland.

Balfour

was interested in parapsychology.[3] He was President of the Society for