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Eventually 20,000 volunteers were called up and fought in the war. However, Balfour's need to liaise with the 2nd Duke of Westminster, who had just inherited the Grosvenor Estate, prevented him from joining his force when they travelled to South Africa at the end of 1899. He remained in command of
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The post involved a lot of design work for Balfour, who seems to have been able to take whatever commissions he wanted, often delegating them to Turner. In the 1890s, Balfour and Turner appear to have been the most prolific designers of private houses on the estate, and in 1892 Balfour was made a
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Balfour's drinking problem became serious around 1906, and in 1909 his health began to deteriorate seriously. In December 1910 he returned to Whittingehame, where he died aged 56 at 6 am on 14 February 1911, surrounded by his family. Eustace was the third of the five Balfour brothers to die
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Hartley writes that theirs was "not a particularly happy marriage". Knox confirms this view, noting that neither Blanche Dugdale's memoirs nor Frances Balfour's autobiography write much about their relationship with Eustace, and that Frances wrote at length about his brother Arthur whom she "far
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Accounts of their marriage diverge widely. Frances's congenital hip dislocation left her in constant pain, and often irritable. The couple's temperament and interests were opposites, Frances's enthusiasm for politics and intellectual company contrasting with her husband's lifelong passion for
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Author Joan B. Huffman is more cautious, noting that crucial sources are unavailable since Frances destroyed all Eustace's letters to her. However, Huffman records that she did support her husband when his sister Alice repeatedly challenged him over his drinking.
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Balfour also supervised projects which were contracted to other designers. The Duke favoured the domestic revival style of architecture, and particularly insisted on red brick for dwelling houses. Balfour, who deplored the previously fashionable
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as "a purely personal record of Thackeray Turner's particular tastes". However, the building was not in fact demolished. Instead, it was dismantled and reconstructed in altered form at Uppingham Avenue in the north-west London suburb of
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the London Scottish until late 1902, when he resigned in protest at financial controls that prevented payments to volunteers if there was an insufficient number of raised troops. On his resignation he was granted the honorary rank of
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in 1871). Balfour had a strong sense of social class, and Frances Balfour later described the 1st Duke of Westminster as having run the estate "not as today on commercial lines, but more as a Principality". Even so, his brother
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Balfour was buried at Whittingehame, with his parents and grandparents. Frances survived him by 20 years (until 1931), and was buried alongside him.
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loomed, Balfour offered to raise a thousand men to go and fight, but it was considered too early to begin that effort. His offer to the minister
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Balfour's first years of architectural practice consisted of small projects for family and friends. These included the restoration of
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A fastidious and somewhat withdrawn individual, Balfour succumbed to alcoholism in his fifties. This brought about his early death.
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within the parish of Hatfield for Balfour's uncle the Marquis of Salisbury, it became the parish church of Hatfield Hyde in 1928.
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since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, and Turner was the Society's secretary. Together the two men were engaged to rebuild
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and nephew of another, his career was built on family connections. His mother was the daughter of a Marquess, and his wife
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Oswald Herbert Campbell Balfour (1894–1953), Military Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada, 1921–23
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He began to take a wider interest in defence issues, writing extensively on the subject, such as
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as the church of St Anslelm Belmont. The parish describes it as "a genuinely recycled building".
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Huffman, Joan B. "Balfour , Lady Frances (1858–1931), suffragist leader and churchwoman".
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in London. His outspokenness on military matters was a factor in his appointment as an
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Percy, Clayre. "Dugdale , Blanche Elizabeth Campbell (1880–1948), author and Zionist".
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Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-soldiers and the South African War, 1899–1902
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Survey of London: volume 39: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 1 (General History)
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in London, described him as "a large, loveable man, and one of the best of talkers".
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on 1 November 1902, with permission to wear the uniform of the corps in retirement.
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in 1882, becoming a Lieutenant in 1883, and Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the
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completion in 1889, and in 1890 Balfour applied for the post of surveyor for the
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in the 1890s and 1900s, and the opportunity to design many buildings himself.
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in Suffolk, which had been destroyed by fire Their design, in a restrained
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Rudyard Kipling: Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings
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Balfour held the surveyor's post until 1910, when he was succeeded by
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which was replaced in 1932 by a modernist apartment block designed by
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for his father-in-law the Duke of Argyll, an extension to his brother
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in Suffolk, rebuilt in the 1880s to the design of Balfour & Turner
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and others had persuaded to adopt a less rigid architectural policy.
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and his wife Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of
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The Lives of Scottish Women: Women and Scottish Society, 1800–1980
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White, William. "Turner, Hugh Thackeray (1853–1937), architect".
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who had made the family's fortune as a contractor supplying the
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district of London, designed by and named after Eustace Balfour
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for Volunteer Forces, with the substantive rank of colonel.
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Member of Parliament (MP), while his mother's father was a
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having both been killed in accidents in the early 1880s.
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Alison Catherine Campbell Balfour (died 3 September 1955)
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In 1885, Balfour began a professional partnership with
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The Conditions and Requirements of the Volunteer Force
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The Conditions and Requirements of the Volunteer Force
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in London gave him architectural control over much of
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At the end of December 1902, Balfour was awarded the
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Scottish architect and officer in the Volunteer Force
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Index


Mayfair
British Prime Minister
Frances
suffragist
Princess Louise
Queen Victoria
English
Scottish country houses
Grosvenor Estate
Mayfair
Belgravia
Volunteer Force
aide-de-camp
King Edward VII
Whittingehame House
James Maitland Balfour
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
James Balfour
nabob
Royal Navy
Tory
Conservative
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Lord Salisbury
Arthur Balfour
Harrow
Trinity College, Cambridge
Basil Champneys
Newnham College, Cambridge
North Kensington

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