Archibald Balfour was an English first-class cricketer.
11 Facts About Archibald Balfour
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Archibald Balfour was educated at Westminster School, leaving in 1859 and being appointed a clerk in The Admiralty.
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Archibald Balfour later played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Sussex at Lord's in 1862.
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Archibald Balfour made two first-class appearances for the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club against the Gentlemen of Kent in the Canterbury Cricket Week's of 1862 and 1863.
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Archibald Balfour struggled in his three first-class matches, scoring 16 runs in these matches, with a highest score 5.
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Archibald Balfour later left the admiralty and became a merchant, like his father.
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Archibald Balfour was a merchant in the Russian Empire at Saint Petersburg, where he was resident for many years.
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Archibald Balfour later returned to England, where he died at Chelsea in October 1922.
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Archibald Balfour's daughter was Edith Lyttelton, the novelist, playwright, World War I-era activist and spiritualist, who was born in Saint Petersburg in 1865.
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Archibald Balfour's son was Reginald Balfour, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and a civil servant in educational administration.
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Archibald Balfour's brothers were Edward and Robert, who were both first-class cricketers.