LATE EARL BALFOUR
AN EARLY ROMANCE FAITHFUL TO HER MEMORY (Aust* and N.Z. Cable) London, March 21. Revealing why Lord Balfour never married, a close friend told the Daily Mail that he only once fell in love, but the romance ended with the sudden death of the woman he loved. She was the Honourable Mary Catherine Lyttelton, daughter of Lord Lyttelton, Gladstone’s brother-in-law, and a sister of the late Alfred Lyttelton. She died in 1875 when 24. ‘‘She actually died as Mr Balfour, as he then was, was on his way to see her with the ring just purchased. He then was 27, and throughout his long life he remained faithful to her memory and never married.”
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 22 March 1930, Page 5
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