Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour

Gerald Arthur James Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour (23 December 1925 – 27 June 2003), styled Viscount Traprain between 1945 and 1968, was a British peer.

Balfour was the son of the 3rd Earl of Balfour and Jean Lily West Roundel Cooke-Yarborough. He married Natasha Georgina Anton (d. 1994), daughter of Captain George Anton, on 14 December 1956.

Balfour was educated at Eton. He took part in the Second World War, in the Merchant Navy. A master mariner, he first served on HMS Conway. From 1960 to 1974, he was a County Councillor for East Lothian. In November 1968 he succeeded his father in the earldom.

As Balfour and his wife had no children, Balfour was succeeded in the earldom by his second cousin once removed, Roderick Balfour.

Affiliations

• Edinburgh Friends of Israel - President 1971-1997.

Earl of Balfour (1922)

• Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848–1930)
• Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (1853–1945)
• Robert Arthur Lytton Balfour, 3rd Earl of Balfour (1902–1968)
• Gerald Arthur James Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour (1925–2003)
• Roderick Francis Arthur Balfour, 5th Earl of Balfour (born 1948)

Resources

• Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 692.
• Announcements, The Daily Telegraph, London, U.K., 30 June 2003.
• Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 172.

External links

• Judgments - Earl of Balfour (Appellant) v Keeper of The Registers of Scotland and Others (Respondents) (Scotland) part 1
• Judgments - Earl of Balfour (Appellant) v Keeper of The Registers of Scotland and Others (Respondents) (Scotland) part 2