Neil Roxburgh Balfour (born 12 August 1944) is a British merchant banker, financier and politician. He was the member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire North from 1979 to 1983.
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Early life
Balfour was born on 12 August 1944 in Lima, Peru, where his father was a merchant and a polo player. He is the son of Archibald Roxburgh Balfour of Dawyck (1883–1958), a member of the Scottish landed gentry, by his second wife, Lilian Helen (née Cooper) Balfour (d. 1989). Neil's line of the Balfour family owned Dawyck House. His father, who was awarded the Military Cross, was a Captain in the Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry.
His older brother Christopher Roxburgh Balfour was born in 1941, and his sister Janet Roxburgh Balfour (b. 1943) married David John Cecil Berens.
Balfour‘s paternal grandparents were merchant and shopowner Alexander Balfour of Dawyck and his wife, Janet Roxburgh, the sister of Archibald Roxburgh and an aunt of J. F. Roxburgh. His maternal grandfather was Maxwell Dennison Cooper.