Honor Balfour

Honor Catherine Mary Balfour (4 August 1912 – 24 February 2001), was a British Liberal Party politician and journalist.

Although she lost comfortably, her campaign had set in motion co-operation between the local Liberal and Labour parties that resulted in a Popular Front candidature at the 1938 Oxford by-election[7][page needed].

While living in Oxford, she assisted in setting up a home for Basque children, refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

[9] In November 1941 she was a founding member of Liberal Action along with Sir Richard Acland, Donald Johnson, Ivor Davies, Lancelot Spicer and Everett Jones.

[13] She went on to fight the Darwen constituency again at the 1945 general election, this time as a Liberal Party candidate, but came third, gaining just under a quarter of the votes.

The local association had adopted a candidate who supported Prime Minister Anthony Eden's actions over Suez.