predecessor successor death_date office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
arthur wallace skrine leonard fielding nalder 16 april 1965 aged 85 governor of red sea province governor of mongalla province 8 december 1884 1927 1 march 1929 francis cecil campbell balfour
 1928 5 december 1930 francis cecil campbell balfour
francis cecil campbell balfour

lieutenant-colonel francis cecil campbell balfour -lrb- 8 december 1884 - 16 april 1965 -rrb- was a british military officer and colonial administrator .
the son of colonel eustace james anthony balfour and lady frances campbell , balfour was a nephew of arthur balfour , who was prime minister of the united kingdom from july 1902 to december 1905 .
he was educated at eton college .
in 1906 he was appointed to the public works department of the anglo-egyptian sudan , and in 1912 was appointed to the sudan political service after the intervention of the governor-general , reginald wingate .
balfour joined the 6th battalion , northumberland fusiliers , where he gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel .
during the first world war he fought in mesopotamia between 1917 and 1919 .
from 1924 to 1926 he was military secretary to the governor of madras , george goschen .
from 1927 to 1928 he served as governor of the red sea province of sudan , and from 1929 to 1930 was governor of the mongalla province of sudan .
balfour was decorated with the award of order of the nile -lrb- 3rd class -rrb- , the military cross and the award of order of the lion and the sun of persia -lrb- 2nd class -rrb- .
he was invested as a companion of the order of the indian empire -lrb- 1919 -rrb- , as a commander of the order of the british empire -lrb- 1931 -rrb- and as a commander of the royal victorian order -lrb- 1953 -rrb- .
he died on 16 april 1965 at the age of eighty .
