# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-balfour
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:34.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-balfour"
name: "Elizabeth Balfour"
slug: "elizabeth-balfour"
description: "Elizabeth Edith Balfour, Countess of Balfour was a British suffragette, politician, and writer. A staunch Conservative, she served as Dame President of the Woking Habitation of the Primrose League and was a founding member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, serving as president of the association's chapter in Edinburgh. After the 1910 Conciliation Bill failed to pass in the House of Commons, she went on a speaking tour across the United Kingdom to rally support for women's suffrage. In 1919, Lady Balfour became the first woman to sit on the Woking Borough Council."
tagline: "Social hostess and biographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Betty%2C_Countess_of_Balfour.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1867-06-12"
deathDate: "1942-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.6
  momentum:             15.48607461902259
  historical:           2.40738
  currentAttention:     75.75757575757575
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Balfour%2C_Countess_of_Balfour"
    title: "Elizabeth Balfour, Countess of Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Balfour%2C_Countess_of_Balfour"
    title: "Elizabeth Balfour, Countess of Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18576115"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations