Edith Sophy Balfour (later EL
) was born a British subject at St Petersburg in Russia, where her father
did business.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says 1865, the 1881 census, by deduction...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Lyttelton
Her father, Archibald Balfour
, was born at Marylebone, London, in 1840. He played first-class cricket in 1862-63 with the Marylebone Cricket Club
—the same club as EL
's husband, Alfred Lyttelton
(though not...