BALFOUR, CLARA LUCAS (_dau. of Mr. Liddell_). _b._ in the New Forest 21 Dec. 1808; signed the pledge at a chapel in St. George’s road, Pimlico 16 Oct. 1837 being the 9th person to do so in Chelsea district; edited _Temperance Beacon_ and _Teetotal Magazine_; a public lecturer 1841–70; author of _Women of Scripture_ 1850; _Happy evenings_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1877; _Sketches of English literature_ 1852; _Moral heroism_ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _Family Honour_ 1880; wrote in many periodicals. (_m._ 1828 James Balfour). _d._ London road, Croydon 3 July 1878. _Home makers by the late Mrs. C. L. Balfour with a biographical sketch of the author by the Rev. C. Bullock_ 1878, _portrait_. BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (_3 son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingham, East Lothian 1820–56_). _b._ Queen st. Edinburgh 11 Nov. 1851; ed. at Harrow 1865–70 and Trin. coll. Cam.; natural science scholar 1871; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877; studied at Professor Dohrn’s Zoological station, Naples; fellow of his college Oct. 1874 and lecturer on natural science 1875; F.R.S. 1878, member of council 1881 to death, royal medallist 1881; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical society Nov. 1881; professor of Animal Morphology in Univ. of Cam. 31 May 1882 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1880; edited with E. R. Lankester _The quarterly journal of Microscopical science_; author of _Monograph on the development of Elasmobranch fishes_ 1878; _Treatise on Comparative Embryology_ _2 vols._ 1880–81; left Courmayeur 18 July 1882 to ascend Aiguille Blanche a peak of Mont Blanc his body was found 23 July on Fresnay glacier at foot of the Penteret. _bur._ at Whittingham 5 Aug. 1882. _Fortnightly Review xxxii_, 568–80 (1882); I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), _portrait_; _Report of British Assoc. 1882 meeting pp._ 555–58. BALFOUR, JAMES. _b._ Russell st. Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1796; served in the navy 5 years; a temperance advocate in London many years; employed in the Ways and Means office of House of Commons 1853. (_m._ 1828 Clara Lucas Liddell). _d._ London road, Croydon 22 Dec. 1884. BALFOUR, JAMES MELVILLE (_youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour, minister of Colinton near Edin. who d. 24 April 1860 aged 82._) _b._ Manse of Colinton 2 June 1831; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin; marine engineer to province of Otago, New Zealand 1863–65 and to government of N.Z. 1865 to death; invented the Refraction Protractor for lighthouses; designed many lighthouses in N.Z., also the dry dock at Port Chalmers; M.I.C.E. 15 May 1866; drowned off Timaru N.Z. 18 Dec. 1869. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi_, 200–202 (1871.)