Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour

The Right Honourable The Earl of Balfour
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 28 November 1968 – 11 November 1999 Hereditary peerage
Preceded by	The 3rd Earl of Balfour
Succeeded by	seat abolished (House of Lords Act 1999)
Personal details
Born	23 December 1925
Died	27 June 2003

Gerald Arthur James Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour (23 December 1925 – 27 June 2003), styled Viscount Traprain between 1945 and 1968, was a Scottish 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 H.M.S. Conway. From 1960 to 1974, he was a County Councillor for East Lothian. In November 1968 he succeeded his father in the earldom.

Styles of address

• 1925-1930: Mr Gerald A. J. Balfour
• 1930-1945: The Honourable Gerald A. J. Balfour
• 1945-1968: Viscount Traprain
• 1968-2003: The Right Honourable The Earl of Balfour

References

• 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

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Balfour
• 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