Michael Balfour

Michael Leonard Graham Balfour (22 November 1908 – 16 September 1995) was an English historian and civil servant. He was born in Oxford, the son of Sir Graham Balfour. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first in history. He first visited Germany in 1930, where he became a friend of Helmuth James von Moltke, later executed as an opponent by the Nazis. During the Second World War, Balfour worked at the Ministry of Information and the Political I…