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Its main claim to fame is Whittingehame House, family home of the Balfours (as in Prime Minister Arthur Balfour and the Balfour Declaration). This building, a huge classical country house and A-listed, still stands, albeit divided into private apartments and not open to the public. Having passed through various hands after the Balfours (at one time it was a private school), there is still much of interest to see, including a spectacular ceiling to the dining room. The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman and the thirty-third Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... The name Balfour Declaration is applied to two key British government policy statements associated with Conservative statesman and former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. ...
Also a street in Glasgow in the area of Jordanhill
The dean's office involves presiding over the archpriest and the other canons and servants of the church, the correction of their negligence and excesses, the rule of the school, the exercise of ordinary jurisdiction and the regulation of worship.
His prebend will be the whole teinds, great and small, and altar-dues of the parish of Whittingehame, where he will have a perpetual vicar whom he will present to the bishop, to whom the vicar's institution and removal will belong, the vicar to receive ten merks.
His prebend is the whole teinds and altar-dues of the parish of Dunbar except the teinds of the chapel of Whittingehame and excluding the teind of wool, sheep and lambs; he will hold all the church lands of the parish save those of the church of Whittingehame.
Later, the name was changed to the Arthur Balfour Professorship, and a condition of the endowment was that the first occupant be "appointed jointly by the Prime Minister (i.e.
Whittingehame Lodge [see photo left], on Storey's Way, purchased jointly by Esher and A.J. Balfour from the Trustees of Storey's Charity in October 1912, was given to the University in January 1914, for the residence of the professor.
Punnett was appointed Balfour Professor in November 1912 (he was previously Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology) and in 1914 he took up residence in Whittingehame Lodge.
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