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Burleigh, Robert Balfour, Baron Balfour of, -1757

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Personal name headingBurleigh, Robert Balfour, Baron Balfour of, -1757
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Variant(s)Balfour, Robert, Master of Burleigh, -1757
Burleigh, Robert Balfour, Baron Balfour of, d. 1757
Master of Burleigh, -1757
Robert, Master of Burleigh, -1757
Associated countryScotland
Death date1757
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Found inHis Information for the master of Burleigh, 1707?
Great Britain. Sovereign, 1707-1714 : Anne. Proclamation for apprehending of Robert master of Burleigh, 1707.
DNB: vol. 1, p. 978 (Balfour, Robert (d. 1757), fifth Baron Balfour of Burleigh; on 9 April 1707 shot Henry Stenhouse, schoolmaster at Inverkeithing; he was tried for murder 4 August 1709 and found guilty. Burleigh is used as a character in Sir Walter Scott's "Heart of Midlothian")
Douglas, R. Peerage of Scotland, 1764: p. 108 (Robert, master of Burleigh, only son of the fourth lord, in the year 1707, had the misfortune to kill a man; he died without issue anno 1757)
Associated languageeng