Thomas Graham Balfour (1858 - 1929)

Born 2 Dec 1858 in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Rhoda Annie (Brooke) Balfour — married 4 Jun 1896 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 26 Oct 1929 at age 70 in Oxford, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Graham Balfour is Notable.

Graham was the son of Thomas Graham Balfour and Georgina Prentice.^[1]

Attended Marlborough; Worcester College, Oxford, matriculated 15 October 1878; (1st Class Classical Mods., 2nd Class Lit Hum.). M.A. Oxford; Hon. M.A. Cambridge; Hon. L.L.D. Birmingham. Barrister-at-law, Inner Temple, 1885; travelled widely, 1885-95: United States, Canada, Egypt, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Central Pacific, especially Samoa, where he chiefly resided, 1892 - 1895; Assistant Sec. to Delegacy of Oxford Local Examinations, 1899 - 1902; Director of education for Staffordshire1903 - 1926. Publications: Educational Systems of Great Britain and Ireland; Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1901; Educational Administration, 1921. Address: 4 Blackhall Road, Oxford. Club: New University. 2nd cousin and biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson. Visited RLS in Samoa circa 1893. Graham Balfour's father Graham and RLS's mother Margaret Balfour were 1st cousins.

Sources

1. ↑ Balfour-Melville: pp. 235-6

• Balfour-Melville, Barbara, "The Balfours of Pilrig: A History for the Family", Edinburgh: William Brown, 1907

See also:

• Wikipedia: Graham_Balfour

• Wikidata: Item Q5592643

• The Peerage: Graham Balfour

• http://www.holmesacourt.org/hac/553.htm

• kittybrewster.com/ancestry/balfour.htm