Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird

Sir James Balfour, c. 1640
Arms of Sir James Balfour: Or, on a chevron sable between three cinquefoils vert an otter's head erased of the field

Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaid (c. 1600 – c. 1658), of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was a Scottish annalist and antiquary.[1]

Biography

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 cinquefoils vert an otter's head erased of the field but also given as three trefoils slipped vert.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Chisholm 1911.
  2. ↑ Burke, John (1832). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn and R. Bentley. p. 73. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
Attribution

Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Balfour, Sir James, Bart. (antiquary)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 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

Further reading

  • Chambers, Robert & Thomson, Thomas Napier (1857). Balfour, (Sir) James, antiquary. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. 1. Glasgow: Blackie and son. pp. 107–15.
  •  "Balfour, James (1600-1657)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  • Balfour, James (c. 1650), Maidment, James, ed., Ancient Heraldic and Antiquarian Tracts, Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson (published 1837)
  • Balfour, James (1652), Haig, James, ed., The Annales of Scotland (1057 – 1603), I, Edinburgh (published 1824)
  • Balfour, James (1652), Haig, James, ed., The Annales of Scotland (1604 – 1640), II, Edinburgh (published 1824)
  • Balfour, James (1652), Haig, James, ed., The Annales of Scotland (1641 – 1649), III, Edinburgh (published 1824)
  • Balfour, James (1652), Haig, James, ed., The Annales of Scotland (1650 – 1652); King Charles' Visit 1633, IV, Edinburgh (published 1824)
Heraldic offices
Preceded by
Sir Jerome Lindsay		 Lord Lyon King of Arms
1630–1654		 Succeeded by
Sir James Campbell
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
New creation Baronet
(of Denmiln and Kinnaird)
1633 – 1657		 Succeeded by
Robert Balfour



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