Alexander Balfour

Balfour was born in Leven, Fife, as the eldest of three sons of Henry Balfour of Dawyck (1796–1854), member of the Scottish landed gentry and a foundry owner, by his wife, Agnes Bisset (1804–1881).

He was married to Janet Roxburgh (1844–1923), daughter of John Roxburgh, minister of the Free Church of Scotland. Their offspring were:

Katherine Gray Balfour (18 January 1865 - 8 August 1865)

Agatha Agate Henrietta Balfour (1866-1958); married Diarmid Noel Paton, son of Sir Joseph Noel Paton; had issue

Alexander Balfour (1870–1876), died in infancy

Frederick Robert Stephen Balfour (1873–1945); married Gertrude Collet Norman (1878–1970) and had issue

Ernest Roxburgh Balfour (1874–1897)

Vera Balfour (1878–1965); married Major Angus Mathieson Stewart, M.B.E.; had issue

Margaret Balfour (1881–1967); married firstly Thomas Arthur Nelson. After his death in 1917, she married Paul Lucien Maze (1887–1979), an artist.

Archibald Balfour (1883–1958); married firstly to Pearl Isabel Alice Price (1882–1952). He married secondly to Lilian Helen Cooper (d. 1989). He had issue from both marriages. Among them is Neil Roxburgh Balfour, former husband of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and husband of Serena Mary Spencer-Churchill Russell (b. 1944), daughter of Edwin F. Russell, granddaughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough and a relative of Winston Churchill.