The New Student's Reference Work/Balfour, Rt. Hon. Gerald W.

Balfour, Rt. Hon. Gerald W., another nephew of the late Marquis of Salisbury and brother of Arthur J. Balfour, entered the English Parliament in 1885, and in the third Salisbury administration he was appointed chief secretary for Ireland, having much to do with the passing of the Irish Land Bill (1895) and the extension of local government to Ireland in 1898, including the creating of a department of agriculture and technical instruction on the island. Subsequently, he was president of the English Board of Trade.