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Category Archives: Biographies
Biography: Arthur Balfour by Brian Klug
From Brian Klug, Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011, pp. 199-210 There appears to be a conundrum about Arthur Balfour.1 On the one hand, his name is inseparable from the Declaration he signed … Continue reading
Posted in Balfour Declaration, Biographies
Tagged Aliens act, anti-semitism, Balfour, Balfour Declaration, Klug, Palestine, Sykes Picot, Zionism
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Biography: David Lloyd George
Lloyd George, David, (First Earl of Dwyfor) 1863-1945 Introduction Because the focus of this website is the Balfour Declaration and its consequences, this biography will be limited to Lloyd George’s career until the end of the First World War, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptist, Celtic fringe, evangelical, First World War, Liberal, Lloyd George
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The Secret of Leopold Amery by William D. Rubinstein
The drafter of the Balfour Declaration was a secret Zionist in what historian William Rubinstein states was “probably the most remarkable example of concealment of identity in twentieth-century British political history” “…Because of his increasingly significant political position, [Amery] … Continue reading
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Tagged 1917, Balfour Declaration, British Mandate, First World War, Leopold Amery, Palestine, Sykes
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Biography: Anthony Ashley, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury by Mary Grey
Anthony Ashley – Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801-1885. [1] After a lonely, loveless childhood, when, like many earlier members of the British aristocracy, the only affection the growing child received came from his nanny, Shaftesbury was elected as … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Christian Zionism, Jew, London Jews Society, Palestine, Palestine Restortion Fund, Palmerston, restorationism
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Chaim Weizmann by Mary Grey
Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia in 1874, in Motol, now Belarus, but then in the “Pale of Settlement”, that area of Russia to which the Jews had been confined since the time of Catherine the Great. From an early … Continue reading
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Tagged 1917, Balfour Declaration, British Mandate, First World War, Jew, Palestine, Zionism
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Short biographies by Mary Grey
The War Cabinet (WW1) The creation of the War Cabinet undertook the supreme direction of the war effort. It was composed of David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law, Lord Nathaniel Curzon, Alfred Milner, Arthur Henderson and Sir … Continue reading
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Tagged 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, Allenby, Asquith, Balfour Declaration, British Mandate, Clayton, Curzon, First World War, Grey, Herbert, Hussein Ibn Ali, Lawrence, Lloyd George, McMahon, Milner, Montagu, Montifiore, Picot, Rothschild, Sacher, Samuel, Sokolow, Storrs, Sykes, Sykes Picot, Talaat Pasha, Weizmann, Wolf, Zaharoff
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Biography: Arthur Balfour by Mary Grey
Arthur Balfour 1848- 1930 The facts of Arthur Balfour’s political life are well-known. What is not so obvious is why he, “a scion of both Scottish mercantile wealth and English aristocracy”[1] – should be linked by history to a document … Continue reading
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Tagged Balfour, Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, restorationism
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