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THE
ANCESTRY OF ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, 1ST EARL OF BALFOUR
1 Arthur
James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
b 25
Jul 1848, Whittingehame, East Lothian
d 19
Mar 1930, Woking
2 James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame, MP for Haddington district
b 5
Jan 1820, Rockville
d
23 Feb 1856, Funchal, Madeira
m
15 Aug 1843, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
3 Blanche
Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil
b 5
Mar 1825, London
d
16 May 1872, Belgravia
4 James
Balfour of Whittingehame, contractor for the
British Navy and MP for Haddingtonshire
b ca 1776, Scotland
d 19
Apr 1845, Whittingehame
m 19
Jan 1815, Dunbar
5 Eleanor
Maitland
b
3/4 Oct 1790, Stevenson House, Haddingtonshire
d 23
May 1869, Newton Don, Berwickshire
6 James
Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, formerly Cecil, 2nd Marquess of
Salisbury
b 17
Apr 1791, Westminster
d 12
Apr 1868, Hatfield
m 2
Feb 1821, Mayfair
7 Frances Mary
Gascoyne
b 25
Jan 1802, Mayfair
d 15
Oct 1839, Westminster
8 John
Balfour of Balbirnie, Fife
b 24 Jan 1739, Edinburgh
d 15
Dec 1813, Balbirnie
m 24 Jul 1771, Blanerne,
Berwickshire
9 Mary
Gordon
b
d 11
Mar 1820, Edinburgh
10 James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
b 26
Jan 1759, Ratho, Midlothian
d 15
Sep 1839, Thirlestane Castle, Berwickshire
m
15 Aug 1782, Walthamstow, Essex
11 Eleanor Todd
bap 5
Aug 1762, Walthamstow
d
16 Sep 1856, Thirlestane Castle
12 James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
b 4
Sep 1748, Hatfield
d
13 Jun 1823, Hatfield
m 2
Dec 1773, Lambeth Palace
13 Mary Amelia Hill
b 16
Aug 1750, Dublin
d
27 Nov 1835, Hatfield
14 Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall
Hall, Liverpool, Lancashire, MP for Liverpool
b 26
Nov 1757
d
17 Jan 1824, London
m
24 Jul 1794, St George, Hanover Square, Westminster
15 Sarah Bridget Frances Price
b 20 Jul 1767, bap 15 Aug 1767,
St George, Hanover Square, Westminster
d
11 Jul 1820, London
16 Robert Balfour, later Balfour-Ramsay, of Balbirnie, MP for Edinburghshire
bap
19 Feb 1698, Markinch, Fife
d
26 Jan 1766, Edinburgh
m 2
Jun 1736, Edinburgh
17 Ann Ramsay
b
d
18 James Gordon of Ellon
b
d 1749
m
19 Elizabeth
Glen
b
ca 1711
d 7 Mar 1792, Edinburgh
20 James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale
b
23 Jan 1718
d
17 Aug 1789, Halton
m
24 Apr 1749, Merton, Surrey
21 Mary Turner Lombe
b 3
Oct 1732
d
20 Jul 1789, Halton
22 Anthony Todd of Walthamstow, Essex,
Secretary of the General Post Office
bap
20 Feb 1718, Stanhope, Co. Durham
d 8
Jun 1798, Walthamstow
m
18 Jul 1758, St Mary Woolnoth, London
23 Anne Robinson
bap 8
May 1741, St Andrew, Holborn, London
d 7
Aug 1765
24 James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury
b 20
Oct 1713, Hatfield
d
18 Sep 1780, Baldock
m
28 Jan 1744/45, Hatfield
25 Elizabeth Keet
bap
15 Mar 1719/20, Canterbury Cathedral
d 3
Feb 1776, Kensington
26 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
b 30
May 1718, Fairford, Gloucestershire
d 7
Oct 1793, Hillsborough, co. Down
m 1
Mar 1747/48, Dublin
27 Margaretta FitzGerald
b 2
Jul 1729
d
25 Jan 1766, Naples
28 Bamber Gascoyne of Bifrons,
Barking, Essex, MP for Truro
bap
22 Feb 1724/25, All Hallows Staining, London
d
27 Oct 1791, Bath
m
24 Jan 1757, Westminster Abbey
29 Mary Green
b 29
May 1729
d 8
May 1799, Childwall
30 Chase Price of Knighton, Radnorshire, MP
for Radnorshire
bap
10 Jul 1731, Knighton
d
28 Jun 1777, London
m
21 Mar 1766, St George, Hanover Square, Westminster
31 Sarah Evelyn
bap
9 Sep 1735, St Peter, Cornhill
d
19 Jan 1826, Westminster
The Complete Peerage
(second edition)
The Complete Baronetage
The Scots Peerage
The History of Parliament
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Edward J. Davies, “The Balfours of Balbirnie and Whittingehame”,
The Scottish Genealogist, 60(2013):84-90
Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography
Blanche Elizabeth Campbell Dugdale,
Arthur James Balfour (London, 1936)
Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage
(106th edition)
Ronald Stewart-Brown, Isaac Greene, a Lancashire
Lawyer of the 18th Century, with the Diary of Ireland Greene (Liverpool,
1921)
Carola Oman, The Gascoyne Heiress (London,
1968)
Max Egremont, Balfour: a life of
Arthur James Balfour (London, 1980)
Sydney Henry Zebel, Balfour: a
political biography (Cambridge, 1973)
Burke’s Peerage, 4th edition
(1833)
Burke’s Landed Gentry,
18th edition
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire
and Cheshire, vol. LIV
St George, Hanover Square, parish register
transcript (Harleian Society, registers series vol. 14)
The Gentleman’s Magazine
C.B. Norcliffe, Some Account of the Family of
Robinson of the White House, Appleby, Westmoreland (Westminster, 1874)
Helen Evelyn, The History of the Evelyn Family (London,
1915)
Kenneth Ellis, The Post Office in the Eighteenth
Century (London, 1958)
National Archives, C 79/157
Whittingehame
parish registers
Dunbar parish registers
Canterbury Cathedral parish registers
St George, Hanover Square, parish registers
St Mary Woolnoth, London,
parish registers
All Hallows Staining, London, parish registers
St Andrew, Holborn, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Monumental inscription of Elizabeth Glen (www.findagrave.com/memorial/98279086/elizabeth-gordon)
1851 census returns, Lauder
Essex Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
St Olave, Old Jewry, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St
Peter, Liverpool, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Knighton
parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
The Chester Chronicle, 17 May 1799
The
Northampton Mercury,
25 Sep 1780
The
Ipswich Journal,
12 Mar 1747/48
The Times, 27 Jan 1824, 24 Apr
1845, 17 May 1872