1st Baron of Inchrye Harold Balfour Hand Signed 3X5 Card JG Autographs COA

  

This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye. (1 November 1897 - 21 September 1988) was a.

Politician in the United Kingdom, and a. Under-Secretary of State for Air. In 1944 he was instrumental in the establishment of. In 1914 and served in France for three months before he transferred to the.

After training he was posted to. In 1917 he was serving with. When he downed two enemy aircraft while flying a. He was injured in a crash and moved on to the School of Special Flying. He claimed 7 more victories and was promoted to major.

Balfour then took command of a training school until 1919. He was private secretary and. 1921-22 and temporary ADC to. Secretary of State for Air, 1923.

In 1923 to follow a career in journalism and business. Balfour was interviewed on 30 September 1978 by the art historian Anna Malinovska. The interview is reproduced in Voices in Flight (Pen & Sword Books, 2006) Balfour contested. Without success in 1924 and was elected in 1929 as. He was sworn in as a member of the.

Privy Council of the United Kingdom. He left the House of Commons in 1945 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Balfour of Inchrye, of Shefford in the County of Berkshire. Balfour died on 21 September 1988 aged 90.

He was married twice in 1921 and 1946 with a son from the first marriage to Diana B Harvey, and a daughter from the second. His 2nd wife was Mary Ainslie Profumo d. 1999, sister of the disgraced cabinet minister.

Attacked his morals, Balfour remarked on live television, "When a man has by self-indulgence acquired the shape of Lord Hailsham sexual continence requires no more than a sense of the ridiculous". Balfour's son, diamond historian. 14 April 2013, aged 88, became the 2nd Baron Balfour of Inchrye on his father's death; he married Josephina Maria Jane Bernard in 1953 - they had a son.