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MP (1784–1805); prime minister (1801–1804); home secretary (1812–1822). MP (1874–1922); secretary for Scotland (1886), chief secretary for Ireland (1887), first lord of the treasury (1891–1892; 1895–1905), lord privy seal (1902), prime minister (1902–1905), first lord of the admiralty (1915–1916), foreign secretary (1916–1919), lord president of the council (1919–1922; 1925–1929); created Earl of Balfour and Viscount Traprain (1922). Principal private secretary to the secretary of state for foreign affairs (1885–1892; 1895–1905); assistant under-secretary of state for foreign affairs (1906–1907). [...]secretary at Athens (1876), Berne (1877), and St Petersburg (1879); second secretary at Rome (1880), Washington (1887), and Berlin (1888); secretary of legation at Peking (1890); consul general at Budapest (1896); minister resident at Lima (1898–1908).