138. James Heriot12 Balfour-Melville (James11, James10 Balfour, John9, Professor James8, James7, James6, James5, Andrew4, James3, David2, Alexander1) was born in Edinburgh 8/07/1845. James died 10/12/1913 in Edinburgh, at 68 years of age.
He married Mary Louisa Dundas 1878. Mary was the daughter of Sir David Dundas. Mary died 1930.
He was christened in Edinburgh, 7/09/1845. From The Times, December 11, 1913
The death took place in Edinburgh yesterday of Mr. J. H. Balfour-Melville, who was for a number of years clerk to the County Council of Mid Lothian. He had been ill for some time.
The eldest son of Mr. James Balfour-Melville, of Mount Melville, Fife, he was born in 1845, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Brighton College and Edinburgh University. He took up the study of law and was a well-known member of the Society of Writers to the Signet. On the death of his father he succeeded to the estate, which he afterwards sold. Of late years he devoted himself to Freemasonry, and was secretary of the Supreme Council of the 33rd degree, of which he was a member. He was also associated with the Grand Priory of the Temple and other bodies, and was Past Provincial Grand Master of Fife and Kinross. He married in 1878 Mary Louise, daughter of Sir David Dundas, Bt., who, with one son, survives him.
He inherited Mount Melville in 1898 on the death of his father but sold it in 1901 to a member of the Younger family when he moved to Auchencross, Comrie. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Brighton College, he entered the firm of Balfour & Scott becoming first a Solicitor and later a Writer to the Signet.
James Heriot Balfour-Melville and Mary Louisa Dundas had the following child:
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Evan Whyte Melville13 Balfour-Melville was born 1887. Evan died 1963 in
Edinburgh, at 76 years of age. He was educated at Charterhouse and New College, Oxford. After the First World he became Senior
Lecturer in the History Department of Edinburgh University. He died at the age of 76 as a result of injuries received when knocked down by
a car near the Mound in Edinburgh. Died without issue.
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