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disease and from early childhood was in constant pain and walked with a limp. Her parents were deeply religious and involved in several different campaigns for social reform. She reportedly helped with these campaigns as a child, for example by knitting garments to be sent to the children of former
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Balfour was the only member of the aristocracy to have a leadership role in the British women's suffrage campaign. She began her work for women's suffrage in 1889, when she became the constitutionalists' main liaison with
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British prime minister from 1902 to 1905. However, in opposition to the Conservative politics of her husband's family, Balfour, along with both her parents, supported Liberal statesman
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and his government when she was a young woman. Lady Frances Balfour and her husband never overcame these political differences and spent less and less time together.
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The Very Rev. Principal Story, D.D. (1909)[No, she published Dr MacGregor of St Cuthberts: A Memoir in 1912. Principle Story was a memoir by Dr. Story's daughters.
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had decided to start a new type of club for women. Another proposed founder, Jessie Trimble, proposed that the new club be called the
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In Memoriam the Lady Frances Balfour, 1881-1931 (Newspaper cuttings compiled by the Committee of the Travellers' Aid Society (1931)
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Joan B. Huffman, 'Balfour , Lady Frances', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2010.
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Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the
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The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years
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The Lives of Scottish Women: Women and Scottish Society 1800-1980
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Lady Frances published six books, including her autobiography
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Presidents of the National Council of Women of Great Britain
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The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928
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suffragist, she was opposed to the militant actions of the
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National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland
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Life and Letters if the Reverend James MacGregor (1912)
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in 1917, and served as president from 1921 to 1923.
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Frances Balfour

London
London
Eustace Balfour
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Lady Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower

Edward Burne-Jones
British aristocracy
Women's suffrage campaign in the United Kingdom
National Society for Women's Suffrage
non-violent
Women's Social and Political Union
suffragettes
Liberal
Scottish peer
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Lady Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower
2nd Duke of Sutherland
Kensington
hip joint
slavery was formally banned
British territories
Eustace Balfour
Lord Salisbury
Arthur Balfour
Conservative
William Gladstone
Parliament

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