Balfour, Arthur James (1st Earl of Balfour)

British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1848 - Born 25th of July in East Lothian, Scotland.

1861-1866 - He was educated at Eton.

1866-1869 - Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received a Second-Class Honours Degree.

1874-1875 - Became Conservative MP for Hertford and represented that constituency.

1878 - Private Secretary to his uncle, Lord Salisbury.

1879 - Wrote A Defence of Philosophical Doubt.

1885 - He was returned for East Manchester.

1886 - Served as Secretary for Scotland.

1887 - Chief secretary for Ireland.

1892-1893 - Served as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons.

1895 - Balfour wrote The Foundations of Belief.

1902-1905 - Became the British prime minister.

1909 - Criticism of Beauty.

1911 - Resigned the leadership of the House owing to the constitutional crisis.

1914 - He wrote Theism and Humanism.

1915 - Followed Churchill to the Admiralty.

1916-1919 - Served under Lloyd George as foreign secretary.

1917 - He was responsible for the famous Balfour declaration which promised Zionists a national home in Palestine.

1921 - Lord President of the Council was responsible for the controversial note canceling Allied war debts to America.

1923 - This year he wrote the Theism and Thought.

1925-1929 - He once again returned to the Cabinet, serving in place of the late Lord Curzon as Lord President of the Council.

1930 - Balfour died 19th of March and buried in Whittingeham House, East Lothian, Scotland.