George Balfour (Royal Navy Officer)
George Balfour may refer to: * George Balfour (Conservative politician) (1872–1941), British Conservative Party politician and engineer * George Balfour (Liberal politician) (1809–1894), British Army officer and Liberal politician * George William Balfour George William Balfour FRSE (2 June 1823 – 9 August 1903) was a Scottish physician, known as a heart specialist. Early life and education Born at the manse of Sorn, Ayrshire, on 2 June 1823, he was the sixth son and eighth of the thirteen c ...

George Balfour (Conservative Politician)
George Balfour (1872 – 26 September 1941) was a British Conservative Party politician and engineer. He was of Scottish parentage where he also spent part of his upbringing but was born in Portsmouth, England. He served his long parliamentary career representing a constituency in the County of London and lived much of his life in England. Career George Balfour joined the Blackness Foundry in Dundee as an apprentice in 1888. He subsequently qualified as a mechanical and electrical engineer.Balfour Beatty: History
as archived 18 April 2009. In 1909, together with Andrew Beatty, an accountant, he founded

George Balfour (Liberal Politician)
General Sir George Balfour Order of the Bath, KCB (8 December 1809 – 12 March 1894) was British Army officer and a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1872 to 1892. Career Balfour was the son of the George Balfour, of Montrose and an older brother of Edward Green Balfour. He was educated at the Addiscombe Military Seminary and became a lieutenant in the Madras Artillery in 1825. From 1832, he served with Malacca Field Force and was Staff Officer of Artillery with the Malacca Field Force from 1832 to 1833 when it was active in the capture of Chusan, Canton, and Amoy. He was adjutant of Artillery from 1833 to 1842, and A.A.G. from 1834 to 1835, He was with the Field Force in the ceded districts, and in action of Zorapore in 1839 when he became Brigade Major in India. From 1840 to 1842 he was in China with the China Force. He was agent for captured property in China from 1841 to 1842 and receiver of pub ...
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