Blayney Townley-Balfour
About Blayney Townley-Balfour
Lived 1799 – 1882 (aged 82–83).
Blayney Townley Balfour (1799 – 5 September 1882) was Lieutenant Governor of the Bahamas from 1833 to 1835.
Biography Blayney Townley Balfour was born in Ireland in 1799, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. During this period he oversaw the implementation of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which came into effect on 1 August 1834.
In 1833 and 1834 he deployed troops multiple times to Exuma to "restore discipline" among Lord Rolle's slaves (later 'apprentices') there. However, the transition in August 1834 was otherwise "quiet and orderly", had been employed in the Bahamas since 1811, as well as to the threat of force
In 1843 he married Elizabeth Catherine Reynell, with whom he had four children. He died on 5 September 1882.
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