\"WW1 Flying Ace\" Baron Harold Balfour Hand Signed 3X5 Card JG Autographs COA For Sale

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\"WW1 Flying Ace\" Baron Harold Balfour Hand Signed 3X5 Card JG Autographs COA:
$279.99

Up for sale the "1st Baron of Inchrye" Harold Balfour Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes

with their Certificate of Harington Balfour, 1st Baron

Balfour of 1897 – 21 September 1988) was a Conservative Party politician

in the United Kingdom, and a flying ace of the First World War. As Under-Secretary of State

for Air in 1944 he was instrumental in the establishment

of London Heathrow Airport. Balfour

was born in Camberley, Surrey, on 1 November 1897 to Colonel Nigel Harrington Balfour

(1873-1955), and Grace A A Maddocks, and educated at Chilverton Elms

School, Dover, Kent and later at the Royal Naval College,

Osborne, Isle of Wight. Balfour

joined the 60th Rifles in 1914

and served in France for three months before he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. After

training he was posted to No. 60 Squadron. In 1917

he was serving with No. 43 Squadron when

he downed two enemy aircraft while flying a Sopwith 1½ Strutter. He

was injured in a crash and moved on to the School of Special Flying, No. 40 Squadron, then

returned to No. 43 Squadron. Now piloting the Sopwith Camel he claimed 7 more victories and was

promoted to major. Balfour then took command of a training school until 1919.

He was private secretary and Aide-de-camp to Air Vice Marshal Sir John Salmond 1921–22 and temporary ADC to Sir Samuel

Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, 1923. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1923 to follow a career in journalism

and business. Balfour was interviewed on 30 September 1978 by the art historian

Anna Malinovska. The interview is reproduced in Voices in Flight (Pen

& Sword Books, 2006) Balfour in 1924 and was elected in 1929 as Member of Parliament (MP)

for Isle of

Thanet. He served in the Air Ministry from 1938 and was Minister Resident in West Africa, 1944–45. He was sworn in as a member of the Privy

Council of the United Kingdom in 1941. He left the House of

Commons in 1945 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Balfour of

Inchrye, of Shefford in the County of Berkshire. Balfour died on 21

September 1988 aged 90. He was married twice in 1921 and 1946 with a son from

the first marriage to Diana B Harvey, and a daughter from the second. His 2nd

wife was Mary Ainslie Profumo (d.1999), sister of the disgraced cabinet

minister, John Profumo. After

Profumo resigned and Lord

Hailsham attacked his morals, Balfour remarked on live

television, "When a man has by self-indulgence acquired the shape of Lord

Hailsham sexual continence requires no more than a sense of the

ridiculous". Balfour's son, diamond historian Ian Balfour (b. 21 December 1924, d. 14 April 2013, aged

88), became the 2nd Baron Balfour of Inchrye on his father's death; he married

Josephina Maria Jane Bernard in 1953 - they had a son.

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