Balfour, Sir James, Lord President of the Court of Session; native of Fife; an unprincipled man, sided now with this party, now with the opposite, to his own advantage, and that at the most critical period in Scottish history; (d. 1583).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Balfour, Francis Maitland * Balfour of Burley