Janet Patricia Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh

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(born December 1945) is a Canadian-born English writer and historian. The daughter of Dr. Frank Morgan and Sheila Saddler, she was born Janet Morgan in

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while her father was working on a top-secret British atomic research project, the

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. She returned to England with her family before the end of

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. She earned a MA and

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. She was named a Commander in the

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in 2008. She is a fellow of the

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. In 1993, she married

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, Lord Balfour of Burleigh. She has been chair of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network, the

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and the Nuclear Trust. She has served as a director of the Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust and Murray International Trust. Morgan wrote a biography of

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that was authorised by the writer's family. She also wrote biographies of Edwina Mountbatten and George Bruce, her father-in-law and the previous Lord Balfour of Burleigh. She was editor for ''The Backbench Diaries of

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