Balfour

Balfour, JOHN, of Kinloch, or of Burley in Scott's Old Mortality, was one of the chief actors in the assassination of Archbishop Sharp in 1679, for which his estate was forfeited, and a price set on his head. He fought at Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge, and is said afterwards to have escaped to Holland. By one account he died on a homeward voyage to Scotland, by another he never left the country, but settled in the parish of Rosneath, Dumbartonshire. Balfour of Kinloch is quite a different personage from Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who succeeded to the title in 1663, spent his youth in France, and died in 1688.—ALEXANDER HUGH BRUCE, sixth Lord Balfour of Burleigh, was born 13th January 1849, from Eton passed to Oriel College, Oxford, and in 1869 had the peerage restored to him, which had been in abeyance since the '15. In 1895 he became secretary for Scotland in Lord Salisbury's government. He is a strenuous opponent of the disestablishment of the Church of Scotland.