Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross
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John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904 – 4 June 1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.[1][2]
He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford,[3] where he was a member of the Railway Club.[4] He then became a journalist and writer.
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During the Second World War he served with the Royal Air Force and from 1944 to 1947 was First Secretary at the British Embassy at Cairo.[5]
In 1938, he married Angela Mary Culme-Seymour (1912-2012), daughter of George Culme-Seymour and Janet (née Orr-Ewing) and former wife of the artist John Spencer-Churchill. Having been separated by World War II when Balfour was posted to Cairo, she started a five-year relationship with Major Robert Hewer-Hewitt by whom she had two sons, Mark and Johnny. Patrick and Angela were divorced in 1942.[6]
Despite the brief marriage, Lord Kinross was homosexual; he had no issue and was succeeded by his brother .[7]
He is buried in "Lords Row" in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh with all previous ancestors of the title Baron Kinross.
Books[]
- The Ruthless Innocent (1949) Supposedly based on the character of Angela Culme-Seymour
- 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 Kindred Spirit; a history of gin and of the House of Booth (London, 1959)
- The Innocents at Home [An account of the author's travels in the United States of America] (1959)
- Atatürk: The Rebirth of a Nation (London. 1964)
- Atatürk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey (New York. 1965)
- Portrait of Egypt (1966)
- The 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
- Hagia Sophia :A History of Constantinople ISBN 9780882250151 (1979) Newsweek Book Division
References[]
- ^ "Ancestors of Gavin R.J. Dallmeyer: Patrick Balfour". Familytreemaker.genealogy.com. 25 June 1904. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ^ "Cracroft's Peerage". Cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ^ Winchester College Register 1915-1960 pp 77-78.
- ^ Lancaster, Marie-Jaqueline (2005). Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure. Timewell Press. p. 122. ISBN 9781857252118. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ Winchester College Record
- ^ The Daily Telegraph: Angela Culme-Seymour. 3 February 2012.
- ^ 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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