Background
BALFOUR, Francis Richard Townley was born on June 21, 1846 in Sorrento. Son of late Blayney Townley Balfour and Elizabeth Catherine Reynell, Townley Hall, Company Louth, Ireland.
BALFOUR, Francis Richard Townley was born on June 21, 1846 in Sorrento. Son of late Blayney Townley Balfour and Elizabeth Catherine Reynell, Townley Hall, Company Louth, Ireland.
Harrow; Trinity College, Cambridge. Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxfordshire. Bachelor of Arts 1869, 3rd class Classical Tripos.
Master of Arts 1872.
Deacon, 1872; Curate of Buckingham. Priest, 1874; chaplain to the Bishop of Bloemfontein, 1876. Missionary in Basutoland.
Canon of Bloemfontein, 18S4.
Chaplain to the British South Africa Company’s Police on the Pioneering Expedition from Bechuanaland to Mashonaland, 1890. Missionary in Mashonaland, 1890-1892.
Director of the Mission at Sekubu, Basutoland, 1894-1898. Archdeacon of Bloemfontein, 1901- 1906.
Archdeacon of Basutoland, 1907.