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BART SIR JAMES BALFOUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 255 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BART
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SIR JAMES BALFOUR
  . (of Denmyine and Kinnaird) (c . 1600-1657), Scottish annalist and
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antiquary . He was well acquainted with
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Sir William Segar and with Dugdale, to whose Monasticon he contributed . He was knighted by Charles I. in 1630, was made Lyon king-at-arms in the same
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year, and in 1633
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baronet of Kinnaird . He was removed from his office of king-at-arms by Cromwell and died in 1657 . Some of his numerous
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works are preserved in the Advocates' library at
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Edinburgh, together with his correspondence—from which rich collection Haig published Balfour's Annales of Scotland in 4 vols . 8vo (1824-1825) . See Sibbald, Memoria Balfouriana (1699) .

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