1908. Honours In June 1901 he received the honorary degree Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow, and later the same year he received the Freedom of the City of Glasgow ″for his services in facilitation legislation for the city″. The following May, he was at Carnavon to receive the honorary degree LL.D. (Legum Doctor) from the University of Wales during the ceremony to install the Prince of Wales (later King George V) as Chancellor of that university. In July 1902, he received the freedom of the city of St Andrews, ″in testimony of his great services to the Scottish nation in many capacities, and especially of the conspicuous abilities with which he had discharged the onerous duties of Secretary for Scotland, and the deep interest he had shown in the cause of education and in promoting the welfare of the country.″ He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle (KT) in March 1901, and invested by King Edward at Marlborough House on 18 March 1901. He was appointed a GCMG in 1911, and GCVO in 1917. History of Presbyterianism Balfour wrote An Historical Account of the Rise and Development of Presbyterianism in Scotland, published in 1911 by the Cambridge University Press as part of their series Cambridge manuals of science and literature. Family Balfour married Lady Katherine Eliza, youngest daughter of the George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen, in 1876. They had two sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Robert Bruce, Master of Burleigh, was killed in the First World War. After his death the heir to the lordship transferred to his second son, George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh (1883–1967). His eldest daughter, Hon. Mary Bruce, OBE, married Sir John Augustus Hope, 16th Baronet Hope of Craighall. Lord Burleigh of Balfour died at Cadogan Square, London, in July 1921, aged 72. He was buried in Clackmannan Churchyard. Lady Balfour of Burleigh died in February 1931, aged 78. References External links Find A Grave Memorial 1849 births 1921 deaths Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Chancellors of the University of St Andrews Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Knights of the Thistle Lords Balfour of Burleigh Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Rectors of the University of Edinburgh Scottish representative peers