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Elizabeth Edith Balfour, Countess of Balfour (née Lady Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton; 12 June 1867 – 28 March 1942) was a British suffragette, politician, and writer. A staunch Conservative , she served as Dame President of the Woking Habitation of the Primrose League and was a founding member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's ...
In an edition of the letters of her sister Constance Lytton (1925), she produced a perceptive portrait of the great suffragette. On Arthur Balfour's death in 1930 Gerald Balfour succeeded as earl of Balfour and Lady Betty became countess. She died of a perforated duodenal ulcer at Fisher's Hill Cottage on 28 March 1942.
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Elizabeth Edith Balfour, Countess of Balfour (née Lady Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton; 12 June 1867 – 28 March 1942) was a British suffragette, politician, and writer. A staunch Conservative , she served as Dame President of the Woking Habitation of the Primrose League and was a founding member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise ...
Betty's sister in law, Lady Frances Balfour, was also a suffrage activist. Gerald also had a keen interest in psychic research. He served served as Chief Secretary of Ireland and President of the Board of Trade. Shortly after her marriage Betty wrote a history of her father's administration in India. In 1891, her father died.
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton's daughter Elizabeth Edith (later Countess of Balfour) published an account of her father's time as viceroy in India, as well as fiction. Another daughter, Lady Constance Georgiana , became a suffragist...
Elizabeth Edith Balfour, Countess of Balfour (née Lady Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton; 12 June 1867 – 28 March 1942), known as Betty Balfour, was a British suffragette, politician, and writer.
