Patrick Balfour, 2nd Baron Kinross KC (23 April 1870 – 28 July 1939) was a

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peer and advocate.

Early life

Balfour was born on 23 April 1870. He was the eldest son and only child of

John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross (born 11 July 1837 – 22 January 1905) was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899. Early life Balfour was born in the manse at Clackmannan, the son of ...

and the former Lilias Oswald Mackenzie. After the death of his mother, his father married the Hon. Marianne Eliza Moncrieff, a daughter of

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. Among younger his half-siblings were James Moncreiffe Balfour, Lt.-Cdr. John Ramsay Blair Balfour, Harry Robert Chichester Balfour, Norman Frederick William Balfour, and Isobel Nora Gwendoline Balfour. His maternal grandparents were Donald Mackenzie, styled Lord Mackenzie, a

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, and the former Janet Alice Mitchell. His paternal grandparents were the Rev. Peter Balfour, minister of Clackmannan, the former Jane Ramsay Blair. He was educated at

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before attending

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, where he graduated in 1894.

Career

He became a practising Advocate in 1897 and was later appointed

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and held the office of

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between 1927 and 1937. He was director of the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society and the

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. Upon his father's death on 22 January 1905, he succeeded to the barony of Kinross. Lord Kinross was admitted to Brigadier of the

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and served as Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway from 1927 until his death in 1939.

Personal life

On 18 August 1903 Caroline Elsie Johnstone-Douglas (d. 1969), the sixth daughter of

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(the eldest son of Robert Johnstone-Douglas and Lady Jane Mary Margaret Douglas, a younger daughter of

Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, (March 1777 – 3 December 1837), known as Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Baronet between 1783 and 1810, was a Scottish peer and member of Clan Douglas. Early life Douglas was the eldest son and heir of ...

). Together, they were the parents of two sons and three daughters: * John ''Patrick'' Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976), who married Angela Mary Culme-Seymour, a daughter of George Culme-Seymour and former wife of the artist John Spencer-Churchill, in 1938.The Daily Telegraph: Angela Culme-Seymour
3 February 2012. *

David Andrew Balfour, 4th Baron Kinross David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

(1906–1985), who married Araminta Peel, daughter of Lt.-Col. Willoughby Ewart Peel in 1936. They divorced in 1941 and he married Helen Anne Hog, daughter of Alan Welwood Hog, in 1948. After her death, he married Ruth Beverly Mill, daughter of William Henry Mill, in 1972 * Hon. Pamela Lillias Balfour (1907–1998), who married Charles Humphrey Scott-Plummer, a son of Lt.-Col. Joseph Walter Scott-Plummer, in 1933. * Hon. Rosemary Jean Balfour (1910–1964), who married Alec Maskell Mitchell, son of Col. Alexander Mitchell, in 1934. They divorced in 1958 and she married Robert Monteath McLaren, son of James Monteath McLaren, in 1958. * Hon. Ursula Nina Balfour (1914–2001), who married Lt.-Col. Christopher James York Dallmeyer, son of Richard Owen John Dallmeyer, in 1939. Lord Kinross died on 28 July 1939 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son,

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. His widow, Lady Kinross, died on 18 February 1969.

Descendants

Through his son David, he was the grandfather of Christopher Patrick Balfour, 5th Baron Kinross (b. 1949).

References

External links

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