Lady Eleanor Maitland. James Maitland Balfour (5 January 1820 – 23 February 1856) was a Scottish land-owner and businessman. He made a fortune in the 19th-century railway boom, and inherited a significant portion of his father's great wealth. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the 1840s, and was the father of Prime ...
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- Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil
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5 de ene. de 2023 · James Maitland Balfour (5 January 1820 – 23 February 1856) was a Scottish land-owner and businessman. He made a fortune in the 19th-century railway boom, and inherited a significant portion of his father's great wealth.
When James Maitland Balfour was born on 5 January 1820, in Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Arthur James Balfour, was 35 and his mother, Lady Eleanor Maitland, was 29. He married Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil on 15 August 1843, in Whittingham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil
James Maitland Balfour was a Scottish land-owner and businessman. He made a fortune in the 19th-century railway boom, and inherited a significant portion of his father's great wealth.
7 de jun. de 2022 · April 18, 1845 (69-70) Funchal, Madeira, Madeira, Portugal. Immediate Family: Son of John Balfour, 5th of Balbirnie and Ellen Gordon. Husband of Lady Eleanor Maitland. Father of Eleanor Taylor-Berkeley; Mary Balfour Herbert; James Maitland Balfour; Charlotte Julian Balfour; Charles Balfour and 3 others.
Letters held within the papers of the Balfour family (GD433), recently purchased by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) for the nation, allow us to witness the blossoming romance between...