Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904 – 1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.^[1]^[2]^[3]

He studied at the University of Oxford.

In 1938, he married Angela Mary Culme-Seymour, daughter of George Culme-Seymour and Janet (née Orr-Ewing) and former wife of the artist John Spencer-Churchill. They were divorced in 1942, whereupon Angela married the Comte de Chatellus. She was the model for "the bolter" in Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love.

Despite the brief marriage, Lord Kinross was homosexual. He had no issue and was succeeded by his brother David Andrew Balfour, 4th Baron Kinross.^[4]

Books

The Orphaned Realm: Journeys in Cyprus (1951)
Within the Taurus: A Journey in Asiatic Turkey (1954)
Portrait of Greece with photographs in colour by Dimitri, Max Parrish: London (1956)
Europa Minor: Journeys in Coastal Turkey (1956)
The innocents at home (1959)
Atatürk: The Rebirth of a Nation (1960)
Atatürk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey (1965)
Portrait of Egypt (1966)
Windsor Years: The Life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor (1967)
Between Two Seas: The Creation of the Suez Canal (1968)
Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (1977) ISBN 0-688-08093-6

References

^ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Patrick-Balfour-3rd-Baron-Kinross/143621985654466
^ http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/a/l/Gavin-R-Dallmeyer/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0103.html
^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index1026.htm
^ On Balfour's homosexuality see Candida Lycett Green, ed. and introduction, John Betjeman: Letters [2 vols, London: Methuen, 1994, reprinted 2006], i, 44).

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Name	Balfour, John 3rd Baron Kinross
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Date of death	1976
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