Sir James Balfour of Denmilne and Kinnaird, 1st Baronet
Sir James Balfour of Denmilne and Kinnaid, 1st Baronet (c. 1600 – c. 1658), of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was a Scottish annalist and antiquary.[1]
Life
Sir James Balfour was well acquainted with Sir William Segar and with William Dugdale, to whose Monasticon he contributed. He was knighted by King Charles I in 1630, was made Lord Lyon King of Arms in the same year, and in 1633 baronet of Kinnaird. He was removed from his office of king-at-arms by Oliver Cromwell and died in 1657.[1]
Some of his numerous works are preserved in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, together with his correspondence, from which rich collection James Haig published Balfour's Annales of Scotland in four volumes (1824–1825). James Maidment also extracted papers from the collection in order to publish them.[1]
His arms were Or, on a chevron sable between three trefoils slipped vert an otter's head erased of the field.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chisholm 1911.
- Attribution
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- 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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| Preceded by | Lord Lyon King of Arms 1630–1658 |
Succeeded by Sir James Campbell |
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| New creation | Baronet (of Denmiln and Kinnaird) 1633 – 1657 |
Succeeded by Robert Balfour |
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