DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 37 Balcarres. Earl, title borne by the Earl of Crawford. BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, BARON, (BRUCE.) We have been. ALEXANDER HUGH BRUCE, 6th Baron, in the peerage of Scotland, only son of the late Robert Bruce, Esq. of Kennet, Vice Lieut, of Clackmannanshire, by his 2nd wife, Jane Hamilton, daughter of the late Sir James Fergusson, of Kilkerran, Ayrshire. Born Jan. 13th, 1849; educated at Eton, and at Oriel College, Oxford (M.A. 1874) ; late Lieut, in the Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Militia: is a Magistrate and a Dep. Lieut, of Clackmannanshire, _ _ ^ Perthshire, and Stirlingshire, and Capt. in Tvery land is the home of a brave * h Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan, man. and Kinross Militia. Sister living, Henrietta Amie (raised to the rank of a Baron's daughter 1870), m. 18/4, C. H. Hamilton, Esq. Creation, Baron Balfour of Burleigh, in the peerage of Scotland, 1607.* Quarterly: 1st and 4th, or, a saltire and chief, gules, Bruce; 2nd and 3rd argent, on a chevron, sable, an otter's head erased, of the field, Balfour. (Crest, 1st, on a wreath a dexter arm in fesse, embowed, in armour, couped at the shoulder, the hand holding a sceptre in bend sinister, or, Bruce ; 2nd, on a wreath upon a rock a mermaid, holding in the dexter hand an otter's head, erased at the neck, and in the sinister hand a a swan's head, also erased, all proper, Balfour. jjupportm! Dexter, an otter, proper j Sinister, a swan close, also proper. Seat, Kennet, Clackmannanshire, N.B. Clubs, Carlton, St', Stephen's. Balgonie, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Leven and Melville. Balinhard, Baron, title of tlie Earl of Southesk, on the Eoll of H.L. Ballinbriech, Baroness, title borne by the Countess of Bothes. Balniell, Lord, title borne by the Earl of Crawford and Balcanes. Baltinglass, Baron, Earl of Aldborough. Balquhidder, Baron and Viscount, titles borne by the Duke of Athole.
- This title, created by James I. in 1607, was forfeited by attainder in 1716, shortly after
the first rebellion in Scotland, and restored to the present Baron Balfour in I860, as lineal descendant of Mary, daughter of Robert, fourth Lord, by her marriage with his ancestor, Major Alexander Bruce of Kennet ; a special Act of Parliament having been passed to reverse the attainder.
