Balfour(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William, the eldest, was the ancestor of the Balfours of Balfour.
BALFOUR of BURLEIGH, Lord, an attainted barony in the peerage of Scotland, formerly held by a branch of the Fife family of Balfour.
BALFOUR, SIR JAMES, of Pittendriech, an eminent lawyer of the sixteenth century, was a son of Sir Michael Balfour of Mountquhanny in the parish of Kilmany, Fife.
Alexander - ancestor of the Bruces of Gartlet and Barbados.
AlexanderHughBruce of Kennet, (1849 - 1921) 6thLord of Balfour of Burleigh, married in 1876, Katherine Gordon, of the 5th Earl of Aberdeen.
www.brucefamily.com /lineage.htm (7153 words)
Secretary for Scotland(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After the rebellion, responsibility for Scotland lay primarily with the office of the Home Secretary, usually exercised by the Lord Advocate.
From 1892 the Secretary for Scotland sat in cabinet, but the position was not officially recognised as a full cabinet member until the post of Secretary of State for Scotland was recreated in 1926.
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (1885-1886)
She married Sir AlexanderHughBruce, 6thLordBalfour of Burleigh, son of Robert Bruce and Jane Dalrymple Hamilton Fergusson, on 21 November 1876 in St.
Sir AlexanderHughBruce, 6thLordBalfour of Burleigh was born on 13 January1849 in Kennet, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Sir AlexanderHughBruce, 6thLordBalfour of Burleigh was educated in EtonCollege, Eton, Berkshire, England.
www.thepeerage.com /p2473.htm (1944 words)
Writings - Arthur Balfour(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Balfours other publications, not yet mentioned, include Essays and Addresses (1893) and The Foundations of Belief, being Notes introductory to the Study of Theology (1895).
AlexanderBruce, 6thLordBalfour of Burleigh - Secretary for Scotland
Lord Lansdowne succeeds Devonshire as Leader of the House of Lords, remaining also Foreign Secretary.
The work was first performed in Moscow, Russia, on 17 May 1939.
AlexanderHughBruce, 6thLordBalfour of Burleigh
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His influence within the party was out of all proportion to his office of Attorney General for Ireland, and continued to grow after he lost office with the defeat of the Conservatives at the general election of 1880.
At the very beginning of his term of office as LordChancellor, he drafted the celebrated Land Purchase act, which is still called after him in common parlance and which was the Conservative Party's first constructive contribution to the Irish land question since the 1840s.
This makes it less interesting, although Ashbourne's recollections of, and reflections upon, such luminaries as Disraeli, Lord Randolph Churchill and Queen Victoria, together with his thoughts on Cabinet government as it had operated in his experience, are not without importance.
Subjects include: LSA's view of 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith], particularly his intelligence, health, arguments with Sir Hamar Greenwood and Sir John Simon and his opinion of the Cabinet; Winston Churchill's committee on the Geddes Report on Government spending; problems with John Amery at school; policy on Ireland; naval estimates.
Subjects include: 1st Lord Milner's wish to have LSA with him, and his reluctance to interfere with LSA's career (Dec 1916); the childhood of John Amery; AFA's sisters; people who might advance LSA's career.
Also includes: cheque counterfoils, 1910; cigarette and signed menu given to AFA by the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and the Duke of Windsor] with AFA's account of the lunch she and LSA gave for him before his tour of Australia and of his departure.
AlexanderHughBruce, 6th Baron Balfour of Burleigh (1849-1921), Statesman
AlexanderHughBruce, 6th Baron Balfour of Burleigh
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Baf - Ban - New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
- ?) Pilgrim Chimes, For The Weeks Of The Year [p1882] AlexanderHughBruceBALFOUR, 6th Baron BALFOUR of Burleigh (M: 1849 Jan 13 - 1921 Jul 6) Sir, Andrew BALFOUR (M: 1873 Mar 21 - 1931 Jan 30) By Stroke Of Sword [f1897] To Arms!
- ?) (ps: Hearndon BALFOUR (1)) Lady, Evelyn Barbara BALFOUR (F: 1898 Jul 16 - 1990 Jan 14) The Living Soil [n1943] Frances Josephine BALFOUR, nee ?
(F: 1876 - ?) To Hep You And Baby [n1913] Francis BALFOUR, MD of Calcutta (M: before 1769 - after 1807) [Insha-yi Harkaran] The Forms Of Herkern [n1781] Frederic Henry BALFOUR (M: ?
