Chamberlain himself was less concerned, assuring Balfour's Private Secretary in February 1902 that ' I have my own work to do and ... I shall be quite willing to serve under Balfour.

At the same time, Balfour tried to balance the two factions by accepting the resignation of three free-trading ministers, including Chancellor Ritchie, but the almost simultaneous resignation of the free-trader Duke of Devonshire ( who as Lord Hartington had been the Liberal Unionist leader of the 1880s ) left Balfour's Cabinet looking weak.

After the Unionists had failed to win an electoral mandate at either of the General Elections of 1910 ( despite softening the Tariff Reform policy with Balfour's promise of a referendum on food taxes ), the Unionist peers split to allow the Parliament Act to pass the House of Lords, in order to prevent a mass-creation of new Liberal peers by the new King, George V. The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Andrew Bonar Law.

Balfour's service as Foreign Secretary was most notable for the issuance of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild promising the Jews a " national home " in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

At that time in Manchester, Arthur Balfour was a Conservative MP representing the district, as well as Prime Minister, and the two met during one of Balfour's electoral campaigns.

Balfour had been becoming increasingly unpopular as Leader of the Conservative Party since the 1906 general election ; tariff reformers saw his leadership as the reason for their electoral losses, and the " free fooders " had been alienated by Balfour's attempts to tame the zeal of the tariff reform faction.

Thomas Balfour's grandson, David Balfour, transformed the island after inheriting the family estate, which by 1846 encompassed the whole of Shapinsay.

The sunken parterre garden design, with its convincingly Jacobean central fountain, designed by Robert Shekelton Balfour ( 1869 – 1942 ), is of 1894 ; Balfour's dated design is conserved in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

By the end of the decade she was considered to be one of Britain's leading screen actresses along with Balfour, and was described by critics as Balfour's only serious rival.

So does Ilford, Essex, where Balfour Road is on the former Ilford Lodge estate, bought for development by Balfour's group.

When, in 2007, the Glenelg Tramline was extended from Victoria Square along King William Street and North Terrace past the Adelaide Railway Station, the Balfour's pie-cart was forced to close.

Publicly, Chamberlain claimed that Balfour's stance was the precursor to a fuller policy of Imperial Preference.

Chamberlain ignored this and intensified his campaign in November 1905, resulting directly in Balfour's resignation on 4 December.

Balfour's skill for steady administration did much to dispel his reputation as a political lightweight.

A notable achievement of Balfour's government was the establishment of the Committee on Imperial Defence.

With Balfour's agreement, Chamberlain resigned from the Cabinet in late 1903 to stump the country in favour of Tariff Reform.

By 1905 relatively few Unionist MPs were still free traders ( the young Winston Churchill crossed over to the Liberals in 1904 when threatened with deselection at Oldham ), but Balfour's long balancing act had drained his authority within the government.

An early attempt to score a debating triumph over the government, made in Balfour's usual abstruse, theoretical style, saw Campbell-Bannerman respond with: " Enough of this foolery ," to the delight of his supporters in the House.

Numerous pieces of legislation were vetoed or altered by amendments between 1906 and 1909, leading David Lloyd George to remark that the Lords had become " not the watchdog of the Constitution, but Mr. Balfour's poodle.

Begbie wrote as one who disagreed strongly with Balfour's political views, but even his one-sided criticisms do not entirely conceal another facet of Balfour's personality, his shyness and diffidence.

A course of lectures on embryology, delivered by Sir Michael Foster in 1871, turned Balfour's attention to animal morphology.

Balfour's reputation was now such that other universities became anxious to secure his services, and he was invited to succeed Professor George Rolleston at Oxford and Sir Wyville Thomson at Edinburgh.

He was the greatest lawyer of his day, and part-author at least of Balfour's Practicks, the earliest text-book of Scottish law, not published, however, till 1754.

Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister, who formed his government the day after Curzon returned to England.

Some of Balfour's men charged so far into the Royalist position that they menaced the princes ' escort and briefly overran the Royalist artillery before withdrawing.

One of these children was H. O. Arnold-Forster, a Liberal Unionist member of parliament, who eventually became a member of Balfour's cabinet.

Of Balfour's appointment to Asquith's cabinet in 1916, Lord Rosebery, who had been Prime Minister in 1894 – 95, said that having an ex-premier in the cabinet was " a fleeting and dangerous luxury ".

In Lord Salisbury's later ministries, as member for Croydon ( 1895 – 1906 ), he was President of the Board of Trade ( 1895 – 1900 ) and Home Secretary ( 1900 – 1902 ); and when Sir Michael Hicks-Beach retired in 1902, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Balfour's cabinet.

Frederic H. Balfour's ( 1880: 380-381 ) brief essay about the Xinyin jing (" The Imprint of the Heart ") contains the earliest known Western reference to the Three Treasures: " There are three degrees of Supreme Elixir – the Spirit, the Breath, and the Essential Vigour ".

Some of his numerous works are preserved in the Advocates ' Library at Edinburgh, together with his correspondence, from which rich collection James Haig published Balfour's Annales of Scotland in 4 volumes ( 1824 – 1825 ).

" It's Raining Men " is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer in 1979 originally for Dave Balfour's album Stars ( it was eventually discarded ), and originally recorded by The Weather Girls in 1982.

* Camps Baco and Che-Na-Wah -- brother / sister camps located on Lake Balfour in the summer

When, in 1880, the North Hall was added, Sidgwick, who in 1876 had married Eleanor Mildred Balfour ( sister of A. J. Balfour ), lived there for two years.

" The catalyst was the publication of The Living Soil by Lady Eve Balfour, the sister of a Prime Minister, in 1943.

Mary Balfour ( d. 1758 ), sister of the fifth Lord, and her husband Brigadier-General Alexander Bruce.

Balfour married Margaret Bothwell, the sister of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney who endowed him with Westray, when it was episcopal property.

Mary was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Balfour of Elwick, a British Army officer and Frances Ligonier, daughter of Colonel Francis Ligonier and sister of the second earl of Ligonier.

His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.

It seemed to Lucy that all their married life, she and Jim had been doing nothing but rescue his sister from the constant crises that were her way of life.

They later met again at a party and married on November 4, 1842, in the Springfield mansion of Mary's married sister.

In 1829 he married Henrietta Preston, sister of Kentucky politician and future civil war general William Preston.

Her sister Hedwig of Andechs married Henry I, duke of Silesia and was canonized as Saint Hedwig in 1267.

Another sister, Gertrude, married Andrew II of Hungary and was the mother of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

Alaric was succeeded in the command of the Gothic army by his brother-in-law, Ataulf, who married Honorius ' sister Galla Placidia three years later.

Caesarius was suspected of conspiring with the Burgundians, whose king had married the sister of Clovis, to assist the Burgundians capture Arles.

After his education, Alexei married, albeit greatly against his will Princess Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, whose family was connected by marriage to many of the great families of Europe i. e., Charlotte's sister Elizabeth was married to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy.

Guy married the king's widowed older sister, Sibylla of Jerusalem in 1180, and so gained a claim to the kingdom of Jerusalem.

He married sixthly to Yıldız ( Gözde ), sister of HH Safinaz Kadın Efendi, a wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and had two children.

In 1930, Capone's sister Mafalda married John J. Maritote at St. Mary of Częstochowa, a massive Neogothic edifice towering over Cicero Avenue in the Polish Cathedral style.

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

Soon after ( possibly in 28 ), Claudius married Aelia Paetina, a relative of Sejanus, if not Sejanus's adoptive sister.

In 350, he was made Caesar ( title ) | Caesar by Constantius and was married to the Emperor's sister, Constantina.

A few days later, Julian was married to Helena, the last surviving sister of Constantius.

In a pairing of great political significance, Chiang was Sun's brother-in-law: he had married Soong May-ling, the younger sister of Soong Ching-ling, Sun's widow, on December 1, 1927.

Áed Findliath was married to Causantín's sister Máel Muire.

Artgal's son and successor Run was married to a sister of Causantín.

In 1613, his sister Elizabeth married Frederick V, Elector Palatine and moved to Heidelberg.

After Bahiyyih Khanum died in 1932, Shoghi Effendi's eldest sister -- Ruhangiz -- married a son of Siyyid Ali Afnan.

) Through Ruhangiz's efforts, Shoghi Effendi's other sister and his cousin Thurayya also married sons of Siyyid Ali Afnan.

* " Ruhi's sister married Covenant-breaker Faydi whose mother joined and supported arch-enemy Muhammad -` Ali and whose father ` Abdu ' l-Bahá denounced openly and repeatedly as His deadly enemy.