What is Arthur Balfour?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = The Earl of Balfour | image = A.J. Balfour LCCN2014682753 (cropped).jpg | order = [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] | term_start = 11 July 1902 | term_end = 5 December 1905 | predecessor = [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|The Marquess of Salisbury]] | successor = [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1848|7|25}} | birth_place = [[Whittingehame]], [[East Lothian]], [[Scotland]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1930|3|19|1848|7|25}} | death_place = [[Woking]], [[Surrey]], [[England]] | party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | honorific_suffix = [[KG]] [[OM]] [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] }} '''Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour,''' <small>[[KG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]]</small> (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] statesman and [[Prime Minister]] of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905. He was minister of Foreign Affairs from 1916 to 1919. In this capacity he wrote the so-called [[Balfour Declaration]] in 1917. {{UKPrimeMinisters|Balfour, Arthur}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Balfour, Arthur}} [[Category:1848 births]] [[Category:1930 deaths]] [[Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Knights of the Garter]] [[Category:Order of Merit]] [[Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:United Kingdom Earls]] [[Category:Zionists]] [[Category:UK MPs 1874–1880]] [[Category:UK MPs 1880–1885]] [[Category:UK MPs 1885–1886]] [[Category:UK MPs 1886–1892]] [[Category:UK MPs 1892–1895]] [[Category:UK MPs 1895–1900]] [[Category:UK MPs 1900–1906]] [[Category:UK MPs 1906–1910]] [[Category:UK MPs 1910]] [[Category:UK MPs 1910–1918]] [[Category:UK MPs 1918–1922]] [[Category:People from East Lothian]] {{bio-stub}}