Old Photograph Lady Nina Square Coaltown Of Balgonie Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Lady Nina Square in Coaltown Of Balgonie, Fife, Scotland. In 1888, Charles Balfour married Lady Helena McDonnell, known as Nina daughter of Alexander MacDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim. They had four sons, the eldest being Charles James Balfour born 188), who became a captain in the Scots Guards, and in 1917 married Aurea Vera Baring, daughter of Francis Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton. Another son, John, was imprisoned in Germany at Ruhleben, a racecourse on the outskirts of Berlin, for the duration of the First World War. He had been studying at a university in Germany at the outbreak of the war and was immediately interned there. On repatriation, he joined the Foreign Office and became a career diplomat, and was knighted in 1954. He was posted in Moscow, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Washington, as well as serving in other countries. He died in 1983. His memoir, Not Too Correct an Aureole: the Recollections of a Diplomat, was published posthumously.


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