Alexander Balfour

He was educated at the High School of Dundee and St Andrews University, and in 1844 moved to Liverpool, where in 1851 he founded Balfour Williamson with Stephen Williamson and David Duncan.

He was a committed philanthropist, and founded the Duke Street Home, to provide better conditions for sailors, and orphanages for seamen's children.

[2] He bought a country estate at Mount Alyn, at Rossett, south of Chester.

Alexander is buried at Christchurch Cemetery, Rossett, Wrexham which is near to his former home.

[1] There is a statue of him by Albert Bruce-Joy in St John's Gardens, Liverpool.