Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour CIE CVO CBE MC (8 December 1884 – 16 April 1965) was a British military officer and colonial administrator.

[1] Balfour joined the 6th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, where he gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

During the First World War he fought in Mesopotamia between 1917 and 1919,[citation needed] taking a leading role in defeating a rebellion in Najaf.

[2] From 1924 to 1926 he was Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras, George Goschen.

[citation needed] Balfour was decorated with the award of Order of the Nile (3rd class), the Military Cross and the award of Order of the Lion and the Sun of Persia (2nd class).