GREAT MAN PASSES

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 20 March 1930, Page 5

GREAT MAN PASSES

END OF LONG CAREER LORD BALFOUR DEAD HIB BROTHER BECOMES EARL By Telegraph-Press Assn- Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, Alarch 19. Obituary.—Lord Balfour. He was the eldest son of the late James Bailfour, of Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire', and of Lady Blanche Cecil, second daughter of the second Marquess of Salisbury, and was born on July 25, 1848. He was educated at Etoii and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1874 lie was elected in the Conservative interest for Hartford, and represented that constituency until 1885. He was a notable figure in Britain’s life. (Received March. 20, 9.5 a,.m.) London ,March JO. Tributes to Lord Balfour . include the King’s messiVge of sympathy to his brother Gerald. Lord Balfour died a,t his brother’s residenefe in Woking in a room overt looking "the garden where he spent many happy hours. Just before his death he called)his valet, James Coleman, with whom he shook hands, saying: “Goodbye, James, Thank you very much for all you have done for me.’’. Gerald Balfour subceds fo his brother’s earldom by a special remainder.