page_title: John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: 1 to 6 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh
context_page_description: John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross PC QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899.
context_section_description: Balfour was born in the manse at Clackmannan, the son of Rev. Peter Balfour ("Perpendicular Peter"), minister of Clackmannan and his wife Jane Ramsay Blair, daughter of John Blair.
  He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and then studied Law at Edinburgh University, becoming an advocate of the Scottish bar in 1861. 
  He served as Advocate Depute from 1870 to 1872, and in 1880 was made a Queen's Counsel. 
  He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Edinburgh.
  At the 1880 general election, Balfour stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Ayrshire North but in a by election six months later was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Clackmannan and Kinross.
  He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1880 and in 1881 he succeeded this appointment by becoming Lord Advocate, a post he held for four years. In 1882 he became a Privy Counsellor. He served as the elected Dean of the Faculty of Advocates twice: from 1885 to 1886, and from 1889 to 1892.
  In 1892, on the return of the Liberals to power, Balfour was again appointed Lord Advocate, finally resigning on the fall of Lord Rosebery's government in 1895. In 1899 he was appointed Lord Justice General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session. In the 1902 Coronation Honours list it was announced that he would receive a barony, and on 15 July 1902 he was created Baron Kinross, of Glascune in the County of Haddingtonshire. He took the oath and his seat in the House of Lords the following month, on 7 August.
  Balfour died 22 January 1905, at his home at 6 Rothesay Terrace in Edinburgh, and was buried in the "Lords Row" in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. His descendants are buried with him.
caption: 6 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh (left)
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