Jabez Balfour
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Jabez Spencer Balfour (4 September 1843 – 23 February 1916) was a businessman, British Liberal Party politician and criminal.
He was Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1880 to 1885, and for Burnley from 1889 to 1893.
He was brought back from Salta, Argentina after his swindling of the Liberator Building Society was discovered and tried at the Old Bailey.
He died in 1916, on a train from London to Wales.
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- Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel by David McKie (Atlantic Books, 2004) ISBN 1-84354-130-0
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Robert Peel and Hamar Bass |
Member of Parliament for Tamworth 2-seat constituency until 1885 (with Hamar Bass) 1880–1885 |
Succeeded by Sir Philip Albert Muntz |
| Preceded by John Slagg |
Member of Parliament for Burnley 1889–1893 |
Succeeded by Philip Stanhope |
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