James Maitland Balfour
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.[3] He served as Member of Parliament for Haddington from 1841 until 1847 and was also Major Commandant of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, who erected the Balfour Monument in his honour overlooking Traprain Law, 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) south west of East Linton in Scotland.Balfour married Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, on 15 August 1843 (her brother Robert later became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom).They had eight children, five sons and three daughters:[4] Balfour died of tuberculosis on 23 February 1856 in Funchal, Madeira, aged 36.
FunchalMadeiraBritishJames BalfourScottishMember of ParliamentPrime MinisterArthur Balfour, 1st Earl of BalfourJames Maitland, 8th Earl of LauderdaleEton CollegeTrinity College, CambridgeWhittingehame HouseRoss-shireGrosvenor SquareNorth British Railwayrailway maniaHaddingtonTraprain LawEast LintonScotlandJames Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of SalisburyRobertPrime Minister of the United KingdomEleanor Mildred BalfourHenry SidgwickNewnham College, CambridgeJohn William Strutt, 3rd Baron RayleighArthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of BalfourConservativeAlice Blanche BalfourFrancis Maitland BalfourUniversity of CambridgeGerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of BalfourChief Secretary for IrelandPresident of the Board of TradeEustace James Anthony BalfourKing Edward VIILady Frances BalfoursuffragisttuberculosisParliament of the United KingdomRobert SteuartHaddington BurghsSir Henry Ferguson DavieJanuary 1910December 1910HertfordManchester EastCity of LondonEleanor Mildred SidgwickEustace BalfourGerald BalfourFrances BalfourRobert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of SalisburyEntente CordialeCommittee of Imperial DefenceBalfour MissionBalfour DeclarationWashington Naval TreatyBalfour Declaration of 1926Clara in BlunderlandLost in BlunderlandEdward the SeventhFebruary 1906 City of London by-electionArthur Balfour Professor of GeneticsBalfouriaEarl of BalfourBob's your uncleThe SoulsWhittingehame