Michael Balfour (historian)

Michael Leonard Graham Balfour CBE (22 November 1908 — 16 September 1995) was an English historian and civil servant.

Born in Oxford, the son of Sir Graham Balfour, Michael Balfour was Director of Public Relations and Information Services, Control Commission, in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany from 1945 to 1947. He was Chief Information Officer at the Board of Trade from 1947 to 1964. He was then Professor of European History at the University of East Anglia from 1966 to 1974. In 1934 he married Grizel Wilson and they had three daughters. Balfour died in the Oxfordshire town of Witney nine-and-a-half weeks before his 87th birthday.