Balfour

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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

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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.