Charles Barrington Balfour (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Captain Charles Barrington Balfour JP, DL, CB (20 February 1862 - 31 August 1921) was a British Army officer who became a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1907. He was a first cousin of Arthur Balfour, who served as Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905. Balfour was the son of Charles Balfour, and his wife Adelaide (died 1862), daughter and 8th child of the 6th Viscount Barrington. His father died when he was 10 years old, and Charles succeeded to his estates: Balgonie Castle in Fife and Newton Don in Roxburghshire. He was educated at Eton and at Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1881 to 1890. He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882, and was present at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir, for which received a medal with a clasp. He was a Captain in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers from 1891 to 1895, and later served as a captain in the Royal Guards Reserve Regiment.