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Hace 1 día · Arthur James Balfour was born at his family seat, Whittingehame, in East Lothian, the “granary of Scotland”. A forebear had made a fortune in India in military materials, so he was financially secure for life, and socially connected at the highest levels.
Hace 4 días · As a young woodcarver he worked at Whittingehame and also decorated a bedroom at the Old Place of Mochrum, one of the Bute family holiday homes, with carved birds and an overmantel depicting the house and trees, shortly before 1905 when the 4th Marquess spent his honeymoon there.
Hace 2 días · Visitors to Whittingehame included HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and King Edward VII. AJ Balfour lived at Whittingehame during the summer and parliamentary recesses. A keen golfer, he took lessons from Ben Sayers, and when he played on the West Links he would be followed by a couple of armed detectives.
Hace 4 días · The Balfour Declaration was one of the most consequential statements of modern history. The Declaration was in fact a letter from Lord Balfour, writing as Foreign Secretary, and delivered to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, on Nov 2, 1917, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
Hace 11 horas · Whittingehame: 4,300 Athelstaneford Parish Church Prestonkirk Parish Church, East Linton: Stenton Parish Church Previously in the Presbytery of Melrose and Peebles 4-254: Caddonfoot Caddonfoot: 912 Caddonfoot Parish Church 4-255: Carlops l/w West Linton: St Andrew's l/w Kirkurd & Newlands Penicuik: 448 Carlops Church West Linton: 4-290: 2,093
Hace 2 días · Civil parishes are still used for some statistical purposes, and separate census figures are published for them. As their areas have been largely unchanged since the 19th century, this allows for comparison of population figures over an extended period of time.
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