- James Maitland Balfour
James Maitland Balfour (
5 January 1820 –23 February 1856 ), of Whittinghame,Berwickshire , was a ScottishMember of Parliament . He was the father of Prime MinisterArthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour .Balfour was the son of James Balfour and his wife Lady Eleanor, daughter of
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale . He served asMember of Parliament for Haddington from 1841 until 1847 and was also Major Commandant of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, who erected the Balfour Monument in his honour overlookingTraprain Law , 2½ miles (4 km) south west ofEast Linton inScotland . Balfour married Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter ofJames Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury , on 15 August 1843 (her brother Robert later becamePrime Minister of the United Kingdom ). They had eight children, five son and three daughters:*Evelyn Georgiana Mary Balfour, who founded the
Soil Association and who marriedJohn William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
*Eleanor Mildred Balfour, who marriedHenry Sidgwick and was Principal ofNewnham College, Cambridge
*Alice Blanche Balfour
*Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour , Conservative politician andPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905
*Cecil Charles Balfour
*Francis Maitland Balfour , Professor of Animal Morphology at theUniversity of Cambridge
*Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl Balfour , Conservative politician who served asChief Secretary for Ireland andPresident of the Board of Trade
*Colonel Eustace James Anthony Balfour, an ADC to King Edward VII.Balfour died of
tuberculosis on23 February 1856 inFunchal ,Madeira , aged 36. Lady Blanche Balfour died in 1872.References
* [http://www.thepeerage.com The Peerage]
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