He was the third surviving son of John Row (1525?–1580), a Scottish reformer, and Margaret Beaton of Balfour; he was born at Perth about the end of December 1568, and baptised on 6 January 1569.
In 2010 he appeared as Balfour in the premiere of Ben Brown's play The Promise, about the Balfour Declaration.
In addition, it shortens the travel time for tourists hoping to visit Sudbury Downs, which is located in the outskirts of Azilda.
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The land at 169 Mary Street was first purchased by John Balfour in 1852, before being transferred to William Allan MLA in 1885.
The Balfour Baronetcy, of Albury Lodge in Albury in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 February 1911 for Robert Balfour, Liberal Member of Parliament for Glasgow Partick from 1906 to 1922.
Balfour claimed that the British government had reluctantly decided that the loans that those countries had received from HM Treasury should be paid back and that reparations from Germany should be collected due to the need for Britain to pay its creditors, the United States.
Possibly the most famous member of the Balfour family was Major General Nisbet Balfour of Dunbog (1743-1823) who fought in the American war of Independence and in the Napoleonic Wars.
Eric Balfour 'Bill' Lundie (born 15 March 1888 in Willowvale, Cape Province, died 12 September 1917 in Passchendaele, Belgium) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1914
Balfour was the son of Charles Balfour, and his wife Adelaide (died 1862), daughter and 8th child of the 6th Viscount Barrington.
Charles Horace Mayo (July 19, 1865 – May 26, 1939) was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother, William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, E. Star Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet and Donald Balfour.
The Committee on Industry and Trade, also known as the Balfour Report because it was chaired by the industrialist Arthur Balfour, was a committee set up to discover the reasons for the United Kingdom's economic decline since the Great War.
The daughter of Archibald Balfour, a London businessman and merchant in Russia, Edith Balfour was educated privately and moved in the aristocratic circle of friends known as the "Souls", which included A. J. Balfour, George Curzon, Margot Tennant (later Asquith), and Alfred Lyttelton, whom she married at Bordighera on the Italian Riviera in April 1892 after the death of his first wife.
Balfour was the second son of Captain George Balfour of the East India Company marine service and Susan Hume (who was a sister of the radical MP Joseph Hume).
Ekkehardt Belle (born 18 May 1954 in Glehn-Neuss, Germany) is a German television actor, best known for his role as David Balfour in the 1979 HTV production of Kidnapped opposite David McCallum.
Balfour is now a private consultant, as well as being on boards for such companies as Metcash, TAL, Salmat, and Knox Grammar School.
He nurtured the careers of a number of distinguished journalists and writers, including Roland Bird, Donald Tyerman, Barbara Ward, Isaac Deutscher, John Midgely, Norman Macrae, Margaret Cruikshank, Helen Hill Miller, Marjorie Deane, Nancy Balfour, Donald McLachlan, Keith Kyle, Andrew Boyd and George Steiner.
From 1901 Balfour lived at Fisher's Hill House, a large home which he had built by Lutyens in Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, also living in the rural hamlet by 1911 were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) who married into his wider family and the Duke of Sutherland.
Balfour spent his first years at school attending Kings Langley Public School and high school years at William Clarke College in Kellyville, New South Wales.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many leading statesmen belonged to the club, including prime ministers Gladstone, Salisbury, Balfour, Asquith, and Baldwin.
Though the stated aim of the mission was to observe Venus, Balfour used the opportunity to investigate the local flora, and on his return, the fieldwork he had carried out permitted him to gain his doctorate.
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Balfour's interest in Sino-Himalayan plants also put him in contact with botanist and plant collector Reginald Farrer.
He served under his father and then his cousin Arthur Balfour as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1900 to 1903 and under Balfour as Lord Privy Seal from 1903 to 1905 and as President of the Board of Trade in 1905.
On Sir Walter Scott must be laid the blame — if blame it be — by having appropriated the name and designation in his 'John Balfour of Burley' in Old Mortality.
He held the post until his marriage to Evelyn Balfour, daughter of James Maitland Balfour, in 1871.
Edward Balfour noted a Muslim group known as Jughi in Bukhara, whose "women go unveiled, and the men are careless in their religious duties." The group was known for practicing medicine, fortune-telling, and horse-trading, and wandered between Bukhara, Samarkand, and Karakul.
Balfour and Thomas Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey, then plain Thomas Allnut Brassey, stood for election as the Member of Parliament for Christchurch in the 1900 general election.
Named after Robert Hampton Gray (VC) and his brother, John Balfour Gray, the peak is notable as the mountain featured on the label of Kokanee beer.
Prime Minister Gladstone attempted to resolve the land question with Balfour’s dual ownership Second Land Act of 1881, but it failed to eliminate tenant evictions.
Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh PC (died 15 March 1619) was a Scottish peer.
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Balfour notably served as Scottish Ambassador to the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Lorraine in 1606 and was a member of the Scottish Privy Council.
Major-General Nisbet Balfour (Dunbog, 1743 – 10 October 1823, Dunbog) was a British soldier in the American War of Independence and later a Scottish Member of Parliament (MP) in the British Parliament.
John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.
Balfour and Sibbald on hearing of his death travelled to Livingston Peel and organised transportation of the huge plant collection to Edinburgh, to a site now occupied by Waverley Station and shortly, in 1763, to a new site on Leith Walk.
One inhabitant of the house was Margaret Balfour, mother of Robert Louis Stevenson (fully, Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, with Lewis later changed to Louis).
A few years later in London on 23 September 1969, she married banker Neil Balfour (born 1944); they had one son, Nicholas Augustus Balfour.
Robert Balfour of Balbirnie (1698–1766) was a Scottish gentleman from Fife.
Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh (died 1757), was a Jacobite from the Burleigh family of the county of Kinross, Scotland, remembered chiefly for a crime of passion.
In 1848 he went to Liverpool, and there founded, with Alexander Balfour, the firm of Balfour Williamson, trading with South America with offices in Valparaiso, Chile and San Francisco.
Varndean shares the Surrenden Campus with Balfour Junior School, Balfour Infants School, Dorothy Stringer High School and Varndean College.
In 1817 they sold Whittingehame and Stoneypath, near Garvald, to James Balfour (father of the Politician Arthur James Balfour, Whittingehame, East Lothian, Scotland, 1848 - Woking, Surrey, 1930), second son of John Balfour, 5th of Balbirnie in Fife, who had made a large fortune in India.