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    Francis Maitland Balfour, known as F. M. Balfour, FRS (10 November 1851 – 19 July 1882) was a British biologist. He lost his life while attempting the...
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    James Maitland Balfour (5 January 1820 – 23 February 1856) was a Scottish land-owner and businessman. He made a fortune in the 19th-century railway boom...
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    Yule Balfour (born 1951). The heir presumptive's heir apparent is his son, George Eustace Charles Balfour (born 1991). Francis Maitland Balfour James...
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  • Francis Balfour may refer to: Francis Balfour (medical officer) (c. 1744–1818), Anglo-Indian medical officer and medical author Francis Maitland Balfour...
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    The Balfour Declaration of 1926, issued by the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after Arthur Balfour, who was Lord...
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    Tunicata were established by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1816. In 1881, Francis Maitland Balfour introduced another name for the same group, "Urochorda", to emphasize...
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    His younger brother was the Cambridge embryologist Francis Maitland Balfour (1851–1882). Balfour met his cousin May Lyttelton in 1870 when she was 19...
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    The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment...
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    Bob's your uncle (category Arthur Balfour)
    Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism, which was apparently...
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    his brother, former prime minister Arthur Balfour, in 1930. Balfour was the fourth son of James Maitland Balfour, of Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire, and...
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