Blayney Townley-Balfour (Belturbet MP)

Blayney Townley-Balfour JP DL (28 May 1769 – 22 December 1856)[1] was an Irish politician and member of the Protestant Ascendancy.[2]

The Townley-Balfours were an Irish branch of Clan Balfour.[3] His grandfather, also named Blayney Townley-Balfour, was a member of the Irish House of Commons (MP) for Carlingford.[4] The grandson was MP for Belturbet in 1800.[5][nb 1] He owned a large flour mill outside Slane.[7] He commissioned architect Francis Johnston to rebuild Townley Hall, the family seat between Drogheda and Slane.[1][4] He was a magistrate for counties Louth and Meath, High Sheriff of Louth in 1792, and deputy Lord Lieutenant of Louth in 1852.[6]

Blayney Townley-Balfour married Lady Florence Cole, daughter of William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen; they had ten children.[4][6] His eldest son, also Blayney Townley-Balfour (born 1799), was Governor of the Bahamas from 1833 to 1835.[6]

Footnotes
  1. Burke says from 1797 to 1798.[6]

References
  1. "Balfour, Blayney Townley". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  2. Burke, Sir Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 51. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  3. Burke, John-Bernard (1846). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant and in Abeyance. Henry Colburh. p. 634. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  4. "The Family" (PDF). Townley Hall: Francis Johnston’s Classical Masterpiece. Townley Hall. p. 2.
  5. Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2006). MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 127. ISBN 9781903688601. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  6. Burke, Sir Bernard (1852). "Balfour of Townley Hall". A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. Colburn and Company. pp. 49–50. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  7. Samuel, Lewis (1837). "Slane". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland.
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