Balfour refused to be drawn on whether or not he would be willing to form a Conservative government, but advised the King not to promise to create peers until he had seen the terms of any proposed constitutional change.

Balfour refused to be drawn on whether or not he would be willing to form a Conservative government, but advised the King not to promise to create peers until he had seen the terms of any proposed constitutional change.

Balfour refused all suggestions of party reorganisation until a meeting of senior Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury after the December 1910 electoral defeat issued an ultimatum demanding a review of party structure.

The plot failed when Balfour refused to countenance such a move and the Liberals publicly announced they would support MacDonald, causing the government to fall in January 1924.

At first the Chinese governor of Shanghai refused to allow the British Consul, Captain Sir George Balfour, a place to hold consul.

The general consensus today is that government did not organize it, but the opinions on how much Pašić knew about it is still a controversial issue and it appears that every historian has its own opinion on the subject: Pašić knew nothing ( Ćorović ); Pašić knew something is about to happen and told Russia Austria would attack Serbia before the assassination ( Dragnić ); Pašić knew but as the assassins were connected to the powerful members of the Serbian intelligence was afraid to do anything about it personally so he warned Vienna ( Balfour ).

The party was saved after Salisbury's retirement in 1902 when his successor, Arthur Balfour, pushed a series of unpopular initiatives such as a new education bill and Joseph Chamberlain called for a new system of protectionist tariffs.

Prime Ministers from 1900 to 1945: Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.

Chamberlain and other Conservatives such as the Earl of Balfour argued for supporting Lloyd George, while former party leader Andrew Bonar Law argued the other way, claiming that breaking up the coalition " wouldn't break Lloyd George's heart ".

" Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Churchill.

In the meantime, Chamberlain consulted with Arthur Balfour, Salisbury's nephew, over the possibility of concerted action with the Conservatives, and contemplated similar cooperation with the Whigs.

When Hartington took his seat in the House of Lords as the Duke of Devonshire, Chamberlain was able to assume the leadership of the Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons, resulting in a productive relationship with Balfour, leader of the Conservatives in the Commons.

Devonshire became Lord President of the Council, and Salisbury and Balfour offered Chamberlain any Cabinet position except Foreign Secretary or Leader of the House of Commons.

Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur James Balfour | Arthur Balfour, 1895

" When the Republic of South Africa ( Transvaal ) formally rejected the notion of British suzerainty as allegedly described by the peace treaty of 1881, Chamberlain and Balfour prompted Salisbury to initiate discussions with Portugal regarding Delagoa Bay.

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.

Chamberlain and the new Prime Minister, Balfour, were very different men.

" However, Balfour and Chamberlain were both aware that the Unionist government's survival depended on their cooperation.

Balfour Education Bill was intended to promote National Efficiency, a cause which Chamberlain thought worthy.

Chamberlain wanted to use this as a start for the reform of Britain's trade, and he was encouraged by a report submitted in June by the President of the Board of Trade, Gerald Balfour, the Prime Minister's younger brother, recommending reciprocal agreements with the colonies.

Balfour hoped that Chamberlain would moderate his espousal of tariff reform in order to satisfy the majority of the Cabinet, and particularly the other prominent Liberal Unionist, Devonshire.

On 9 September, Chamberlain dramatically sent a letter of resignation to Balfour, explaining his wish to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference outside the Cabinet.

An hour before the Cabinet meeting on 14 September, Chamberlain and Balfour agreed that Chamberlain would resign and attempt to rally public support for Imperial Preference if the Cabinet could not be persuaded to adopt the new policy.

When the Cabinet meeting failed to endorse his proposals, Chamberlain announced his resignation, but Balfour did not tell the meeting about Chamberlain's resignation letter, instead telling many members of his belief that Chamberlain was not serious about resigning.

The next day, Lord George Hamilton resigned, and the following day, 16 September, Balfour announced the resignations of Ritchie, Hamilton and Chamberlain.

By now, Chamberlain had accepted that the Unionists were likely to lose the general election, and criticised Balfour for delaying the inevitable.

Indeed, Chamberlain now hoped that Balfour would fail in promoting his guarded fiscal doctrine, probably with a strategy of eventually leading the Unionists in opposition to the Liberals on a purely protectionist platform after the expected defeat in the general election.

Modern applications of continuously supported track include Balfour Beatty's ' Embedded Slab Track ' which uses a rounded rectangular rail profile ( BB14072 ) embedded in a slipformed ( or pre-cast ) concrete base ( development 2000s ), the ' Embedded Rail Structure ', used in the Netherlands since 1976, initially used a conventional UIC 54 rail embedded in concrete, later developed ( late 1990s ) to use a ' mushroom ' shaped SA42 rail profile ; a version for light rail using a rail supported in an asphalt concrete filled steel trough has also been developed ( 2002 ).

Heiress Betty ( Betty Balfour ) draws the ire of her father after using his airplane to fly to her boyfriend ( Jean Braden ) on an ocean liner headed to France.

Balfour agreed to promote Austen to the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, who would then speak for his father inside the Cabinet.

When Arthur Balfour resigned, Austen Chamberlain and Walter Hume Long both declared themselves as candidates for the leadership of the Unionist Party in the Commons.

The group met approximately twenty times at Buckingham Palace between June and November 1910, with the Conservatives represented by Arthur Balfour, Lord Cawdor, Lord Lansdowne and Austen Chamberlain.

The suggestion was no more Law's than it was any of the other dozens of conservatives who had suggested this to Balfour, and his comment was simply an attempt to " pass the buck " and avoid the anger of Austen Chamberlain, who was furious that such an announcement had been made without consulting him or the party.

By November 1911 it was accepted that Balfour was likely to resign, with the main competitors being Law, Carson, Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain.

Outside of Law's position, other Conservatives also gained positions in the new administration ; Arthur Balfour became First Lord of the Admiralty, Austen Chamberlain became Secretary of State for India and Edward Carson became Attorney General.

Many leading Conservatives ( e. g. Birkenhead, Arthur Balfour, Austen Chamberlain, Robert Horne ) were not members of the new Cabinet, which was contemptuously referred to as " the Second Eleven ".

In the wake of the struggle between his father and Balfour, Austen Chamberlain became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903.

Facing a resurgent Liberal opposition and the threat of an internal party split, Balfour eventually took the Unionists into opposition in December 1905, and in the ensuing rout in the election of 1906, Austen Chamberlain found himself one of the few surviving Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons.

He was involved in a plot to persuade Arthur Balfour that should the King seek his advice on who to appoint Prime Minister, Balfour would advise him to appoint Austen Chamberlain or Lord Derby Prime Minister instead of Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald.

The Conservatives were led by Arthur Balfour and Lord Lansdowne, who headed the Conservatives in the House of Lords, while Law spent the time concentrating on the continuing problem of tariff reform.

Though that control was to end according to the Balfour Declaration in 1948, the groups used sabotage as an opposition tactic.

Balfour hoped to calm the situation by devoting the summer to the question and publicly professed support for neither policy, earning him much criticism by the opposition Liberal Party.

However, threatened by backbench opposition, Balfour rescinded the agreement and demanded party unity.

Although in opposition, it appeared that Chamberlain had successfully associated the Unionists with the cause of tariff reform, and that Balfour would be compelled to accede to Chamberlain's future demands.

Arab opposition increased as the Balfour Declaration and the wave of Jewish settlers to Palestine began to tilt the demographic balance of the area.

* A fictionalised version of Arthur Balfour ( identified as " Mr. Balfour ") appears as British Prime Minister in the science fiction romance The Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith, published in 1893 ( when Balfour was still in opposition ) but set in an imagined near future of 1903-1905.

Balfour advised the monarch that in a democratic age it was inappropriate for the Prime Minister to be a member of the House of Lords, especially when Labour, who had few peers, had become the main opposition party in the Commons.

The issue of tariff reform split the Conservative Party, and Prime Minister Arthur Balfour resigned, prompting a general election in which the Conservative Party were forced into opposition.

The Balfour report of 1921, the Geddes Axe of 1922 and the Salisbury Committee of 1923 all found in favour of the RAF despite lobbying from the Admiralty and opposition in Parliament.

There was initial opposition to the match from the Duke of Clarence's parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales: Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Salisbury in 1890 that "( t ) he Teck girl they won't have because they hate Teck and because the vision of Princess Mary haunting Marlborough House makes the Prince of Wales ill ." Nevertheless, the Queen gave her official consent to the engagement on 12 December 1891.

The Arabs instigated riots against the Jews due to their opposition to the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate.

There were Arab riots throughout 1920-21 in opposition to the Balfour Declaration.

Balfour, despite the opposition, made it clear that he intended to proceed.

Their conclusions confirmed the opposition of Syrians to the mandate in their country as well as to the Balfour declaration, and their demand of a unified Greater Syria encompassing Palestine.

After the fall of the Conservative government in 1905, the surviving Hughligans became bitter opponents of Balfour, whom they considered insufficiently militant in opposition to the Liberal government of Henry Asquith.