Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (April 9, 1853 – January 14, 1945) was a prominent British Conservative politician and peer. He was the younger brother of Prime
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Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (April 9, 1853 – January 14, 1945) was a prominent British Conservative politician and peer. He was the younger brother of Prime
Minister Arthur Balfour.
Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, Gerald pursued a career in public service and politics. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central from 1885 to 1906. During his political career, he held several high-profile government positions, including: Chief Secretary for Ireland (1895–1900), President of the Board of Trade (1900–1905), President of the Local Government Board (1905).
Following the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1930, Gerald succeeded him as the 2nd Earl of Balfour, entering the House of Lords. He was also deeply interested in psychical research and served as the president of the Society for Psychical Research.
Gerald Balfour was a member of the elite, secretive Cambridge University intellectual discussion society known as the Cambridge Apostles. Within Cambridge archival records and historical contexts surrounding the society's network, he has been noted to have had an intimate liaison with the economist and fellow Apostle John Maynard Keynes.
Gerald Balfour married Lady Betty Edith Bulwer-Lytton in 1787 (daughter of the 1st Earl of Lytton). Among his children was Lady Eve Balfour, a pioneering farmer, educator, and a founding figure of the organic farming movement.
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