Balfour and Shackleton
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Rt Hon Arthur J Balfour, M and Ernest H Shackleton, 1909.
Arthur James Balfour was the Conservative Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905. Later as Foreign Secretary, he authored the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Shackleton was a key figure in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration who was knighted after the Nimrod Antarctic Expedition (1907 to 1909).
Location: The Benjamin Stone Photographic Collection, n22124-001
