Balfour A series in the New Zealand Upper Triassic, underlain by the Gore, overlain by the Herangi (Jurassic), and comprising the Oretian, Otamitan, Warepan, and Otapirian Stages.

Balfour surname of the Conservative statesman Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930).
Balfour Declaration a declaration in favour of a Jewish national home in Palestine, issued in 1917 by Balfour as Foreign Secretary.
Mr Balfour's poodle the House of Lords; from the title of a book (1954) by Roy Jenkins, and ultimately in allusion to a speech by Lloyd George of 1907, in which he described the House of Lords as the ‘poodle’ of Balfour as Prime Minister.