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...
Birth
Edith Lyttelton
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...
