About Blayney Townley-Balfour
Lived 1769 – 1856 (aged 86–87). Blayney Townley-Balfour was a magistrate and politician.
Blayney Townley-Balfour (28 May 1769 – 22 December 1856) was an Irish politician and member of the Protestant Ascendancy.
The Townley-Balfours were an Irish branch of Clan Balfour. His grandfather, also named Blayney Townley-Balfour, was a member of the Irish House of Commons (MP) for Carlingford. The grandson was MP for Belturbet in 1800. #tag:ref|Burke says from 1797 to 1798. He commissioned architect Francis Johnston to rebuild Townley Hall, the family seat between Drogheda and Slane. His eldest son, also Blayney Townley-Balfour (born 1799), was Governor of the Bahamas from 1833 to 1835.
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Irish politician (1769-1856)
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Blayney Townley-Balfour was born in 1769.
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