Editing Arthur Balfour (section)

==Popular culture==
Balfour occasionally appears in popular culture.<ref name="Rasor1998" />
* Balfour was the subject of two parody novels based on [[Alice in Wonderland]], ''[[Clara in Blunderland]]'' (1902) and ''[[Lost in Blunderland]]'' (1903), which appeared under the pseudonym Caroline Lewis; one of the co-authors was [[Harold Begbie]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Sigler|editor-first=Carolyn|date=1997|title=Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" Books|location=Lexington, KY|publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]]|pages=340–347}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Dickinson|first=Evelyn|title=Literary Note and Books of the Month|journal=United Australia|volume=II|issue=12|date=20 June 1902}}</ref>
* The character Arthur Balfour plays a supporting, off-screen role in ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]'', promoting the family patriarch, [[Richard Bellamy (Upstairs, Downstairs)|Richard Bellamy]], to the position of Civil Lord of the Admiralty.
* Balfour was portrayed by [[Adrian Ropes]] in the 1974 [[Thames TV]] production ''[[Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill]]''.
* Balfour was portrayed by [[Lyndon Brook]] in the 1975 [[Associated Television|ATV]] production ''[[Edward the Seventh]]''.
* A fictionalised version of Arthur Balfour (identified as "Mr. Balfour") appears as British prime minister in the science fiction romance ''[[The Angel of the Revolution]]'' by [[George Griffith]], published in 1893 (when Balfour was still in opposition) but set in an imagined near future of 1903–1905.
* The indecisive Balfour (identified as "Halfan Halfour") appears in "Ministers of Grace", a satirical short story by [[Saki]] in which he, and other leading politicians including Quinston, are changed into animals appropriate to their characters.