Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale

He also served as President of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce from 1923 to 1924 and of the British Council from 1947 to 1950 and as Chairman of the Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research from 1937 to 1957.

The committee's report resulted in the Fire Brigades Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo.

He died in July 1957, aged 84, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Robert.

He was a freemason and founding member of University Lodge Sheffield 3911.

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1923, created a Baronet of Sheffield in the County of York in 1929,[8] and raised to the peerage as Baron Riverdale, of Sheffield in the County of York, on 27 June 1935.