Archibald Balfour

Archibald Balfour (16 July 1840 – 29 October 1922) was an English first-class cricketer.

He was educated at Westminster School, leaving in 1859 and being appointed a clerk in The Admiralty.

He was a merchant in the Russian Empire at Saint Petersburg, where he was resident for many years.

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.