Blanche Dugdale
Blanche Elizabeth Campbell "Baffy" Dugdale was a British author and Zionist. Chaim Weizmann called her, "an ardent, lifelong friend of Zionism".
Early life
She was born Blanche Elizabeth Campbell Balfour on 23 May 1880 at 32 Addison Road, Holland Park, London, the eldest of the five children of Eustace James Anthony Balfour, an architect and the youngest brother of prime minister Arthur Balfour, and his wife, Lady Frances Campbell, daughter of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. She was educated at home, and received no formal education. She was always known as "Baffy", a childhood rendering of her surname, Balfour.Career
Dugdale worked in the Naval Intelligence Department. She was associated with the League of Nations Union in various role from its founding in 1920 until it ended, and was one of the British delegates to the 1932 League Assembly.She provided faithful encouragement and help to the Polish-Jewish historian Lewis Namier while he was writing The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III, first published in 1929.
She always signed her articles Blanche E. C. Dugdale, but everyone knew her as Baffy Dugdale. Chaim Weizmann called her, "an ardent, lifelong friend of Zionism". In 1936, she published a two-volume biography Arthur James Balfour about her uncle, the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.