Balfour, Right Hon

Arthur, was bom in 1848, and educated at Eton and Trinity College. Cambridge. Pie was private secretary to his uncle, Lord Salisbury, when the latter was Foreign Secretary in 1878-80, and went with Lord Beacons field and Lord Salisbu^ to the Berlin Congre . In his early career in Parliament he was a temporary member of Lord Randolph Church ill’s “Fourth Party.” Pie became Conservative Member for East Manchester in 1885, was President of Local Government Board in the same year, Secretary for Scotland in 1886, Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887-91, and in the latter year became First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the Plouse of Commons. He has written one or two famous books, A Defence of Philosophic Doubt and The Foundations of Belief.