Sir Robert Balfour, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Balfour, 1st Baronet (6 March 1844 – 4 November 1929) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1906 to 1922.

He was born in Pilmuir, Largo, Fife in 1844, a son of James Balfour.

In 1863 he joined the merchant firm Balfour, Williamson & Co. From 1869 to 1893, he was stationed in San Francisco.

[2] In 1906, Balfour was elected as a Member of Parliament in Glasgow.

At the following General Election in 1918, he supported the Coalition government of Lloyd George, and was awarded the 'coupon'; He retired from Parliament just before the 1922 UK general election.