James Balfour 58,266
- Born: 17 February 1815, Edinburgh
- Christened: 28 February 1815, Edinburgh
- Marriage: Eliza Ogilvy Maitland-Heriot on 15 August 1844 348
- Died: 1898 aged 83
 General Notes:
Assumed the name of Melville on the death of his brother John in 1893.
Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edkinburgh University, he joined his
father's frim where he became a solictor and later in 1842 a Writer to
the Signet. He was appointed Clerk to the Commissioners of Income Tax
for Midlothian; this position was held in the family until his grandson, John Inglis Balfour-Melville, resigned in 1962. He was also a Justice of the Peace for the County of Fife.
Noted events in his life were:
1. He appeared on the census in 1841 in Pilrig House, Edinburgh.
James married Eliza Ogilvy Maitland-Heriot, daughter of James Maitland-Heriot and Unknown, on 15 August 1844.348 (Eliza Ogilvy Maitland-Heriot died in 1897.)
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