Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaid ( – 1657), of

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, was a Scottish

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Biography

James Balfour was a son of Sir Michael Balfour of Denmilne, Fife, and Joanna Durham. Balfour was well acquainted with Sir

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and with

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, to whose ''Monasticon'' he contributed. He was knighted by King Charles I in 1630, was made

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in the same year, and in 1633 baronet of Kinnaird. He was arbitrarily removed from his office of Lord Lyon by

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and died in 1657. Some of his numerous works are preserved in the

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, together with his correspondence, from which rich collection James Haig published Balfour's ''Annales of Scotland'' in four volumes (1824–1825).

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also extracted papers from the collection in order to publish them. His arms were ''Or, on a chevron sable between three cinquefoils vert an otter's head erased of the field'' but also given as ''three trefoils slipped vert''.

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Library

Balfour was an avid manuscript collector. Many of his manuscripts was purchased by the

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in 1698 and are now in the

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References

Attribution: * which in turn cites: ** Sibbald, Robert (1699) ''Memoria Balfouriana; sive, Historia rerum, pro literis promovendis, gestarum a ... fratribus Balfouriis ... Jacobo ... et ... Andrea. Authore R.S.''. Edinburgi: Typis Hæredum Andreæ Anderson

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