Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour (8 December 1884 - 16 April 1965) was a British

United Kingdom

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 military officer and colonial administrator.

The son of Colonel Eustace James Anthony Balfour and Lady Frances Campbell, Balfour was a nephew of Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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 from July 1902 to December 1905. He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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.

In 1906 he was appointed to the public works department of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

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, and in 1912 was appointed to the Sudan Political Service after the intervention of the Governor-General, Reginald Wingate.

Balfour joined the 6th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, where he gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. During the First World War

World War I

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 he fought in Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

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 between 1917 and 1919.
From 1924 to 1926 he was Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras

Governors of Madras

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, George Goschen

George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen

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. From 1927 to 1928 he served as governor of the Red Sea Province of Sudan, and from 1929 to 1930 was Governor of the Mongalla

Mongalla, South Sudan

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 Province of Sudan.

Balfour was decorated with the award of Order of the Nile

Order of the Nile

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 (3rd class), the Military Cross

Military Cross

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 and the award of Order of the Lion and the Sun

Order of the Lion and the Sun

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 of Persia (2nd class).
He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire

Order of the Indian Empire

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 (1919), as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Order of the British Empire

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 (1931) and as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Royal Victorian Order

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(1953).
He died on 16 April 1965 at the age of eighty.