Winston Churchill emerging from Number 10 holding up the " V " sign for " Victory " When Lord Salisbury retired in 1902, his nephew, Arthur James Balfour, became Prime Minister.

Francis ( Frank ) Maitland Balfour, known as F. M. Balfour, ( November 10, 1851-July 19, 1882 ) was a British biologist.

* Mount Balfour 3, 272m ( 10, 735 ft .)

After a sarcastic suggestion by Lord Crewe, Arthur Balfour announced to a crowd of 10, 000 at the Royal Albert Hall that the coming election would be used as a referendum on tariff reform, something he described as " Bonar Law's proposal " or the " Referendum Pledge ".

However, Sharif Hussein formally endorsed the Balfour Declaration in the Treaty of Sèvres of 10 August 1920, along with the other Allied Powers, as King of Hedjaz.

Balfour finally announced on 10 August 1891 that local government legislation would be introduced in the next parliamentary session.

The Constitution: It stated that with over 450, 000 Jews having now settled in the mandate, the Balfour Declaration about " a national home for the Jewish people " had been met and called for an independent Palestine established within 10 years, governed jointly by Arabs and Jews :" His Majesty's Government believe that the framers of the Mandate in which the Balfour Declaration was embodied could not have intended that Palestine should be converted into a Jewish State against the will of the Arab population of the country.

Despite the fact that the British government had provided for the creation of a Jewish state in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in May 1939, the House of Commons passed the so-called White Paper, which limited the number of Jewish immigrants to the Holy Land to 10, 000 yearly, which had tragic consequences to the fate of the Jews in Hitler-occupied Europe.

Alfred William Maitland FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton ( 3 March 1850 – 10 January 1930 ), styled Lord Alfred FitzRoy between 1882 and 1912 and Earl of Euston between 1912 and 1918, was the son of the 7th Duke of Grafton and his wife Anna Balfour, daughter of James Balfour (- 1845 ) aunt of Arthur Balfour.

" The ' most comprehensive explanation ' of the origin of the Balfour Declaration the Foreign Office was able to provide was contained in a small ' unofficial ' note of Jan 1923 affirming that: little is known of how the policy represented by the Declaration was first given form.

This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called " the Milner Declaration ," since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet.

Since 1974, the official residence of the prime minister is Beit Aghion, at the corner of Balfour and Smolenskin streets in Rehavia.

** The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.

On the 13th of September 2009 the contractors of the Dartford River Crossing ( Le Crossing ) changed to Connect Plus M25, which again is made up of a consortium of Atkins, Egis, Skanska, and Balfour Beatty.

There is, however, another major impediment — an affair with the young wife ( Katherine Balfour ) of an older businessman ( Robert H. Harris ), well-known to his former prospective father-in-law.

In the international development of the organic farming movement, Fukuoka is considered to be amongst the " five giant personalities who inspired the movement " along with Austrian Rudolf Steiner, German-Swiss Hans Müller, Lady Eve Balfour in the United Kingdom and J. I.

Balfour is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States.

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Balfour is a city in McHenry County, North Dakota in the United States.

Balfour is located at ( 47. 951113 ,-100. 533608 ).

Balfour is located on U. S. Highway 52 southeast of Minot.

It is possible that at this stage Chamberlain could have become leader of all the surviving Unionists ( at least all those in favour of Tariff Reform ) and forced Balfour to resign, but even protectionist Tories were reluctant to choose Chamberlain as their leader, not having forgotten how, as a Liberal, in the 1880s, he had been one of their sternest critics.

Winston Churchill once compared Balfour to Herbert Asquith by stating, " The difference between Balfour and Asquith is that Arthur is wicked and moral, while Asquith is good and immoral.

His great work is his Commentarii in Organum Logicum Aristotelis ( Bordeaux, 1618 ); the copy in the British Museum contains a number of highly eulogistic poems in honour of Balfour, who is described as Graium aemulus acer.

Grant Balfour is a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays, and played in the 2008 World Series.

After his friend Jesse ( Eric Balfour ) is made a vampire, Xander accidentally kills him.

However, after discovery of this document, the GCHQ official historian said: " I believe that this is indeed the same document that Balfour handed to Page.

The Lagniappe was recognized in May 2011 as " First Class " by the Associated Collegiate Press and as one of the top 2 percent of high school and collegiate yearbooks by Balfour Publishing's " The Yearbook's Yearbook ".

The amendment was rejected by the government, however, with the First Lord of the Treasury, Arthur Balfour, believing it would be " an anomaly which, I think, would be not unnaturally resented by other districts which are as large in point of population as Westminster, although doubtless not so rich in historical associations ".

Smith in 1891, Balfour became First Lord of the Treasury — the last one in British history not to have been concurrently Prime Minister as well — and Leader of the House of Commons.

When the Conservatives returned to power, in a coalition with the Liberal Unionists, in 1895, Balfour once again assumed the positions of Leader of the House and First Lord of the Treasury.

* Arthur Balfour – First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons

Balfour remained an important figure within the party, however, and when the Unionists joined Asquith's coalition government in May 1915, Balfour succeeded Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty.

* Dugdale, Blanche: Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour KG, OM, FRS-Volume 1, Hutchinson and Co, 1936

* Dugdale, Blanche: Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour KG, OM, FRS-Volume 2-1906 – 1930, Hutchinson and Co, 1936

Following the end of the First World War, however, geo-political shifts took place that saw the emergence of the Dominions as sovereign states, the first step being the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1926, followed by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act the next year, and the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

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.

* October 1891 ; Arthur James Balfour succeeds William Henry Smith ( deceased ) as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons.

* Arthur James Balfour ; First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons

* Arthur James Balfour ; First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons

In November 1900 Selborne was sworn of the Privy Council and made First Lord of the Admiralty under Salisbury, with a seat in the cabinet, an office he retained when Arthur Balfour became Prime Minister in 1902.

He succeeded in the earldom in 1898 and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as First Lord of the Admiralty.

The López family also owned the Iloilo-Negros Air Express Company ( the first Filipino owned air service ), the Iloilo Times ( El Tiempo ), the Manila Chronicle and ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, LSC ( Lopez Sugar Corporation ), Bayantel ( including Bayan DSL ), SkyCable ( including SkyBroadband ), Meralco ,, RLC ( Rockwell Land Corporation ), Rockwell Center, First Balfour, Inc., Philippine Electric Corporation ( Philec ), First Electro Dynamics Corporation ( Fedcor ), First Sumiden Circuits, Inc. ( FSCI ), Securities Transfer Services, Inc. ( STSI ), The Medical City ( TMC ), BayanTrade DotCom, First Gas Holdings Corporation ( Santa Rita ), FGP.

Among these events, ranging from a few positive to news headlines to crimes against humanity, were: the pogroms, the co-opted 1905 Russian Revolution, founding of the Folkspartei, the First World War, the February Revolution followed by the October Bolshevik, the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Versailles Treaty, the Polish – Soviet War, the Weimar inflation, the U. S. A. Immigration Act of 1924, exile of Leon Trotsky by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Gulag, the Great Depression, collectivization of the Ukraine, the Nazi regime, the Nuremberg racial laws, Stalin's Great Purge, Kristalnacht, the 1939 White Paper, the Nazi – Soviet Pact, the Second World War, the Soviet-Nazi War, and the Shoah.

* October 1891 ; Arthur James Balfour succeeds William Henry Smith ( deceased ) as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons.