Patrick Balfour, 2nd Baron Kinross

Patrick Balfour, 2nd Baron Kinross KC (23 April 1870 – 28 July 1939) was a Scottish peer and advocate.

Early life Balfour was born on 23 April 1870. He was the eldest son and only child of John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross and the former Lilias Oswald Mackenzie. After the death of his mother, his father married the Hon. Marianne Eliza Moncrieff, a daughter of James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff. Among younger his half-siblings were James Moncreiffe Balfour, Lt.-Cdr. John Ramsay Blair Balfour, Harry Robert Chichester Balfour, Norman Frederick William Balfour, and Isobel Nora Gwendoline Balfour.

His maternal grandparents were Donald Mackenzie, styled Lord Mackenzie, a Lord of Session, and the former Janet Alice Mitchell. His paternal grandparents were the Rev. Peter Balfour, minister of Clackmannan, the former Jane Ramsay Blair.

He was educated at Harrow School before attending Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1894.

Personal life On 18 August 1903 Caroline Elsie Johnstone-Douglas (d. 1969), the sixth daughter of Arthur Johnstone-Douglas of Lockerbie (the eldest son of Robert Johnstone-Douglas and Lady Jane Mary Margaret Douglas, a younger daughter of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry). Together, they were the parents of two sons and three daughters:

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976), who married Angela Mary Culme-Seymour, a daughter of George Culme-Seymour and former wife of the artist John Spencer-Churchill, in 1938. David Andrew Balfour, 4th Baron Kinross (1906–1985), who married Araminta Peel, daughter of Lt.-Col. Willoughby Ewart Peel in 1936. They divorced in 1941 and he married Helen Anne Hog, daughter of Alan Welwood Hog, in 1948. After her death, he married Ruth Beverly Mill, daughter of William Henry Mill, in 1972