# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-balfour-2nd-earl-of-balfour
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:48:55.260Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-balfour-2nd-earl-of-balfour"
name: "Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour"
slug: "gerald-balfour-2nd-earl-of-balfour"
description: "Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, PC, known as Gerald Balfour or The Rt Hon. G. W. Balfour until 1930, was a senior British Conservative politician who became a peer on the death of his brother, former prime minister Arthur Balfour, in 1930."
tagline: "British politician (1853–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GeraldBalfour.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1853-04-09"
deathDate: "1945-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.34
  momentum:             0.3189493433395872
  historical:           8.286466666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Джеральд Вільям Бальфур"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_William_Balfour"
    title: "Gerald William Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Balfour%2C_2._Earl_of_Balfour"
    title: "Gerald Balfour, 2. Earl of Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Balfour%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Balfour"
    title: "Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Balfour_(2e_comte_de_Balfour)"
    title: "Gerald Balfour (2e comte de Balfour)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8"
    title: "ג'רלד בלפור"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Balfour"
    title: "Gerald Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%83%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC%2C_2-%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%83%D1%80"
    title: "Бальфур, Джеральд Уильям, 2-й граф Бальфур"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Balfour%2C_2%3Ae_earl_av_Balfour"
    title: "Gerald Balfour, 2:e earl av Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2917086"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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