Quote of the day
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

Born: June 25, 1904
Died: June 4, 1976 (aged 71)
Bio: John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.
Known for:
- The Ottoman centuries
- Atatürk, the rebirth of a nation (1964)
- Grand Tour: Diary of an Eastward Journey (1935)
- The Windsor years (1967)






