Career

Balfour was an Oxford student studying German in the city of Freiberg when World War I began. He spent the entire war in a German prisoner camp. During his service with the Foreign Office, Balfour was posted to Portugal, Spain (1951–1954), Argentina, Moscow, and Washington District of Columbia. In 1983, Balfour published his memoirs, Not Too Correct an Aureole: Recollections of a Diplomat.