Profile
Neil Balfour
Merchant + Banker + Financier
Male
Born
Aug 12, 1944
Age
68
Neil Roxburgh Balfour is a British merchant banker and financier who had a second career as a politician.
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Poor Rapeseed Crop Sends Landkom Shares Plunging Agrimoney.ComGoogle News - Sep 07, 2011
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Пише: Александар Павић ВИДОВДАН.ОРГGoogle News - Jun 18, 2011
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Animal Cruelty Case Adjourned New Zealand HeraldGoogle News - Jun 04, 2011
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I Was Retching Says Spca Inspector Hawke's Bay TodayGoogle News - May 25, 2011
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CHILDHOOD
1944
Birth
Born in 1944.
TWENTIES
1969
25 Years Old
In 1969, Balfour married HRH Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, the only daughter of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. She bore him one son, Their marriage fell apart and they were divorced in 1978. However, Balfour wrote a sympathetic official biography of his father-in-law in 1980, called Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain's Maligned Friend. Balfour remarried in 1978 to Serena Mary Churchill Russell, niece of the Duke of Marlborough.
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THIRTIES
After fighting Chester-le-Street again in the February 1974 general election, Balfour moved jobs to join the European Banking Co.
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1981
37 Years Old
In the European Parliament, Balfour concentrated on trade policy. He attacked member state governments for lacking any will to remove state aids to industry and to institute free trade. As budget spokesman for the Conservative MEPs, he attacked the European Community's budgeting process but, in October 1981, joined with other Conservative MEPs in signing a letter calling on the UK to join the European Monetary System.
1982
38 Years Old
In December 1982, he made an impressive speech attacking the MEPs voting to withdraw a budget rebate for the United Kingdom that had been accepted by the European Council.
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1983
39 Years Old
He had been appointed Chairman of the York Trust Ltd in 1983, which later became York Mount Group.
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FORTIES
1986
42 Years Old
John Spence, the Conservative MP for Ryedale (part of his former European Parliament constituency), died in 1986, and Balfour was selected to defend the seat in a by-election.
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FIFTIES
1999
55 Years Old
In 1999 he became involved with the emerging Polish market as a Director of Mostostal Warszawa SA, serving as Chief Executive Officer from 2000 to 2002.
2000
56 Years Old
In 2000 he wrote a letter to The Spectator in which he declared "as a committed Europhile" that the best solution would be to allow Britain to opt in to EU laws it liked, and supported the call from Conrad Black for Britain to negotiate membership of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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