BALFOUR, SIR JAMES, BART. (of Denmylne and Kin aaird) (c. 1600-1657), Scottish annalist and antiquary, was acquainted with Sir William Segar and with Dugdale, to whose Monasticon he contributed. He was made Lyon king-at-arms in 1630. Some of his numerous works are preserved in the Advocates' library (now National Library of Scotland) at Edinburgh, together with his correspondence—from which rich collection Haig pub lished Bal f our's Annales of Scotland from Malcolm III. to Charles II. (1824-25).
See Sibbald, Memoria Balf ouriana (1699) .