Archibald Balfour (16 July 1840 – 29 October 1922) was an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Archibald Balfour | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 July 1840 Marylebone, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 October 1922 (aged 82) Chelsea, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Edith Lyttelton (daughter) Edward Balfour (brother) Robert Balfour (brother) Alfred Lyttelton (son-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1862 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 September 2021 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Charles Balfour, he was born at Marylebone in July 1840. He was educated at Westminster School, leaving in 1859 and being appointed a clerk in The Admiralty.[1] Balfour later played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Sussex at Lord's in 1862. He also made two first-class appearances for the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club against the Gentlemen of Kent in the Canterbury Cricket Week's of 1862 and 1863.[2] Balfour struggled in his three first-class matches, scoring 16 runs in these matches, with a highest score 5.[3] Balfour later left the admiralty and became a merchant, like his father. He was a merchant in the Russian Empire at Saint Petersburg, where he was resident for many years.[4] Balfour later returned to England, where he died at Chelsea in October 1922. His daughter was Edith Lyttelton, the novelist, playwright, World War I-era activist and spiritualist, who was born in Saint Petersburg in 1865.[4] His son was Reginald Balfour (1875-1907), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and a civil servant in educational administration. His brothers were Edward and Robert, who were both first-class cricketers.
References
edit- ^ Forshall, Frederic Hale (1884). Westminster School Past and Present. Wyman & Sons. p. 369.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Archibald Balfour". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Archibald Balfour". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ a b Ruickbie, Leo (2018). Angels in the Trenches. London: Little, Brown Book Group. p. 229. ISBN 9781472139580.