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Tilda Swinton

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John Hutton Balfour

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Tilda Swinton — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Andrew Balfour 
  • Mother:
  • Magdalene Goldie   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Sep 1808 
  • Birth Location:
  • Edinburgh, Scotland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Feb 1884 
  • Death Location:
  • Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Marion Spottiswood Bayley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Aug 1848 
  • Marriage Location:
  • South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland 
  • Child:

  Andrew Francis Balfour (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  • Notes: 

  • President of Berwickshire Naturalists Club (1878)

    Professor of Botany

• Sources for John Hutton Balfour

  • ¹ Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22, Vol. 22, Supplement, p. 53.
  • ² Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22, Vol. 1, p. 976.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/17/2017).
  • ⁴ Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character, Royal Society, 1924, Vol. 96, No. 679, pp. i-ii.
  • ⁵ Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, Birth records for the children of John Hutton Balfour and Marion Spottiswood Bayley.
  • ⁶ Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, Marriage record for John Hutton Balfour and Marion Spottiswood Bayley.
  • ⁷ The Berwickshire News (Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland), 28 NOV 2012, Obituary for granddaughter Lady Judith Swinton.
  • ⁸ The British Medical Journal, 1884, Vol. 1, No. 1207, p. 346, Obituary for John Hutton Balfour.
  • ⁹ Foster, Joseph, The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of The British Empire for 1881: The Baronetage and Knightage, Westminster: Nichols and Sons (1881), 34.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "John Hutton Balfour", (accessed 08/17/2017).

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