Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman

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Surname:	Balfour
Forenames:	Arthur James
Gender:	Male
Date:	1848-1930
Title:	1st Earl of Balfour
History:	Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty 1915; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1916-1919; Lord President of the Council 1919-1922 and 1925-1929. From 1921-1922 he was British delegate at the Washington Naval Conference.
Biography:	ODNB link for Balfour, Arthur James (1848-1930) 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P274822 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P130898 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Arthur James Balfour

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1904-1908: Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Northcote: Papers	The National Archives, Kew	PRO 30/56
2	1880-1907: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour and Gerald William Balfour 2nd Earl of Balfour: Papers	The National Archives, Kew	PRO 30/60
3	PAPERS OF A J BALFOUR AS CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND, MARCH 1887 TO OCTOBER 1891
4	Balfour, Earl of
5	1872-1930: corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 49683-49962	See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
6	1869-1930: corresp and papers	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD433/2	NRA 10026 Balfour See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
7	1916-1922: corresp and papers	The National Archives	FO800/199-217
8	1887-1891: Irish papers	The National Archives	PRO30/60/1-13
9	c1892-1905: letters and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS. Eng. hist. a. 21, c. 713-73	NRA 19043
10	1882-1893: political letters received	Duke University: William R Perkins Library		See Guide 1980, p28
11	letters (10) to Duke of Abercorn	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D623; T2541	NRA 15790 Hamilton
12	1887-1911: letters (25) to Aretas Akers-Douglas	Kent History and Library Centre	CKS-U564	NRA 9550
13	1895-1902: letters to Lord Ampthill	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dep Monk Bretton 86	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
14	1917: corresp with A Anderson	The National Archives	PRO 30/68/10-15
15	1902-1905: corresp with HO Arnold-Forster	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 50276-352	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
16	1883-1902: letters (21) to Lord Ashbourne	Parliamentary Archives	ASH	NRA 18808
17	1908-1917: corresp with Herbert H. Asquith	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Asquith	NRA 12685 See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
18	1886-1926: copy of letter from and letters to Margot Asquith	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS. Eng. c.6670 passim	NRA 42917
19	1908-1928: letters to Lady Astor	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 1416/1/4/23	NRA 41566 Astor See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
20	1884-1910: letters (23) to Alfred Austin	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections	DM668	NRA 33764
21	1925-1929: letters (14) to Stanley Baldwin	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
22	1903: corresp with Lord Balfour of Burleigh	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRA923	NRA 18285 Bruce
23	1891-1896: corresp with EW Benson	Lambeth Palace Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
24	1916-1918: corresp with Lord Bertie	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 63043-49
25	1903-1905: corresp with William Brodrick	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50072
26	1882-1910: letters (17) to Oscar Browning	Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre	OB	NRA 21235 Browning
27	1896-1916: corresp with Sir Henry Burdett	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng b 2068-69, c 5894-6032, d 2867-89	NRA 39820
28	1897-1905: letters to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 41217-38 passim
29	corresp with Edward Carson	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D1507	NRA 17985 Carson
30	1906-1929: corresp with Lord Cecil	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51071
31	1885-1890: corresp with Sir Edwin Chadwick	London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	CHADWICK	NRA 21653 Chadwick
32	corresp with Austen Chamberlain	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	AC	NRA 12604 Chamberlain
33	corresp with Joseph Chamberlain	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	JC	NRA 12604 Chamberlain
34	c1874-1894: corresp with Lord Randolph Churchill	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	RCHL	NRA 13273 Churchill
35	1890-1920: letters to Sir Henry Craik	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.7174
36	1910-1922: corresp with Sir Henry Page Croft	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CRFT	NRA 15709 Croft
37	1899-1906: corresp with Lord Curzon	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 111-12	NRA 20536
38	1885-1905: letters to Sir Charles Dalrymple	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.25276-25758, MSS.25767-25839	NRA 17690 Dalrymple
39	1901-1907: corresp with Randall Thomas Davidson	Lambeth Palace Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
40	1903-1930: corresp with Lord Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 DER	NRA 20761
41	1890-1928: corresp with Lady Desborough	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	D/ERV	NRA 26768
42	1887-1905: letters to Duke of Devonshire	Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth	vol 16	NRA 20594 Cavendish
43	1918-1922: letters to WH Dickinson	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng hist c 403	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
44	1885-1900: corresp with Sir Charles Dilke	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43877
45	1886-1904: letters (12) to Sir James Donaldson	St Andrews University Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
46	1895-1927: letters (16) to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution	Edinburgh City Archives	qYAS 122P	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
47	1901-1905: letters to Edward VII	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist c 714-17	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
48	1891-1916: corresp with Arthur Elliott	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS 19488	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
49	corresp with Sir John Ewart	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS1054	NRA 11854
50	1905-1915: corresp with Lord Fisher	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	FISR	NRA 16615 Fisher
51	1922-1939: letters (11) to HAL Fisher	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Fisher	NRA 16446 Fisher
52	1880-1909: letters (17) to AC Fraser	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Dep.208
53	1887-1921: corresp with Moreton Frewen	Library of Congress, Manuscript Division		NRA 22522 Frewen
54	1901-1928: corresp with Lord Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 45986
55	1877-1923: letters to Mary Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46238
56	1874-1896: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44444-785 passim
57	1887-1900: letters to Lord Goschen	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dep c 182-83	NRA 5677
58	1887-1926: letters to Sir Edmund Gosse	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	Library Publications no 3	NRA 9840 Gosse
59	1907-1916: corresp with HA Gwynne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Gwynne MSS	See Chris Cook, Sources in British political history 1900-1951 vol 5 1978
60	1892-1928: corresp with Lord Haldane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.5903-17
61	1899-1914: letters (11) to Lord Halsbury	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add. MS 56372 ff.196-219v	NRA 6238 Giffard
62	1900-1919: corresp with Viscount Hanworth	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist c 941 943, d 430	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
63	1889-1922: corresp with Lewis Harcourt	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Harcourt	NRA 3679
64	1898-1918: corresp with Lord Hardinge	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Hardinge	NRA 3853
65	letters (43) to William Ernest Henley	The Morgan Library		See NUC MS 84-2128
66	1895-1911: letters (11) to Sir George Henschel	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.6211
67	c1904-05: corresp with WAS Hewins	Sheffield University: Special Collections and Archives	MS 74	NRA 42721
68	1885-1909: corresp with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach	Gloucestershire Archives	D2440	NRA 3526
69	1897-1927: letters (16) to Sir Samuel Hoare	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Tem I-II, X, XVII P 3	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
70	letters to TC Horsfall	Manchester Archives and Local Studies
71	corresp with Edward House	Yale University Libraries: Sterling Memorial Library		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
72	1925-1930: corresp with Thomas Jones	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Thomas Jones	NRA 30994 Jones
73	1911-1915: letters to Philip Kerr	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist c 785, 790	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
74	1914-1916: corresp with Lord Kitchener.	The National Archives	WO 159
75	1914-1916: corresp with Lord Kitchener	The National Archives	PRO 30/57
76	1906-23: corresp with Andrew Bonar Law	Parliamentary Archives	BL	NRA 19286
77	1915-22: corresp with David Lloyd George	Parliamentary Archives	LG	NRA 15700
78	1899-1926: letters (34) to Oliver Lodge	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	OL, OJL, Lodge, L Add	NRA 16740 See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
79	1917-1919: corresp with Lord Long	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	947	NRA 15883 Long
80	1905-22: corresp with Lord Long	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62403
81	1917-1928: corresp with Lord Lothian	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD40	NRA 10737 Kerr
82	1885-1926: corresp with Alfred and Edith Lyttelton	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CHAN	NRA 19700
83	1894-1927: letters (24) to LJ Maxse	West Sussex Record Office		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
84	1895-1930: corresp with Lord Midleton	The National Archives	PRO 30/67
85	1889-1922: corresp with Lord Milner	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
86	1910-1918: letters to Alexander Murray	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 8802 8806	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
87	1914-1925: corresp with Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
88	1896-1918: corresp with Lord Northcliffe	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62153
89	1903-1909: corresp with Lord Onslow	Surrey History Centre	173	NRA 1088 Onslow
90	letters to Sir Hugh Owen	Cathays Branch and Heritage Library		See Accessions to Repositories 1966
91	1917-18: corresp with Sir RS Paget	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51252
92	1891-95: letters (10) to Sir Charles Pearson	Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections	Gen 756
93	corresp with Lord Pembroke	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	2057	NRA 22080 Herbert
94	1909-17: corresp with Sir Horace Plunkett	Plunkett Foundation	BALF	NRA 16228 Plunkett
95	1898-1910: letters to Hastings Rashdall	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng lett c 345 3487, d 359 361	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
96	1917-1919: letters to Lord Reading	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur E 238, F 118	NRA 20531 Isaacs
97	1887-1890: letters (29) to Sir Joseph Ridgeway	Helmingham Hall		NRA 6957 Ridgeway
98	1903-1905: corresp with Lord Ritchie	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 53780	NRA 10649
99	1900-1914: letters to Lord Roberts	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	7101/23, 8310/155-62	NRA 18656
100	1905-1917: corresp with Walter Runciman	Newcastle University: Special Collections	WR	NRA 13873
101	1904-05: corresp with Herbert Samuel	Parliamentary Archives	SAM	NRA 11187
102	1896-1924: letters to Charles Sarolea	Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections	Sar coll
103	1892-1916: corresp with Lord Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Selborne	NRA 17810
104	1910-1919: corresp with Lord Selbourne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Selborne papers	NRA 22802
105	1900-1910: letters to James Parker Smith	Glasgow City Archives	TD1	NRA 20864 Smith
106	1919-1926: letters from WR Sorley	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives		See Bulletin of IHR, vol 19, p103
107	1888-1891: letters to Edward Stanhope	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/O257	NRA 25095
108	1888-1889: letters (15) to WT Stead	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	STED 1/4	NRA 32593
109	1896-1925: corresp with John St Loe Strachey	Parliamentary Archives	STR	NRA 19285
110	1902-19: corresp with Sir Joseph John Thomson	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	MSS C49; H17; H19 passim	NRA 23828 Thomson
111	1894-1916: corresp with Wilfrid Ward	St Andrews University Library	ms38347-38348, ms38469 and ms38508	NRA 26993
112	1919: corresp with Sir Henry Wilson	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	HHW	NRA 28567
113	1890-1910: corresp	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
114	corresp	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist c 723-70	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
115	1895-1926: corresp with Lord Rosebery and some papers rel to Donald Macleod	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 10101-10131, 9657, 9812-27 Passim
116	1909-10: papers rel to his Romanes Lecture, University of Oxford	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	Acc 2020/5	See Annual Return 2020

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