LC control no. | nr 93021692 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Burleigh, Robert Balfour, Baron Balfour of, -1757 |
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 country | Scotland |
Death date | 1757 |
Special note | Data provided by the ESTC/BL |
Found in | His 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 language | eng |