Baron Kinross, of Glasclune in the County of Haddingtonshire (East Lothian since 1921), is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1902 for the Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 lawyer, Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician and Lord President of the Court of Session

Lord President of the Court of Session

The Lord President of the Court of Session is head of the judiciary in Scotland, and presiding judge of the College of Justice and Court of Session, as well as being Lord Justice General of Scotland and head of the High Court of Justiciary, the offices having been combined in 1836...

, John Balfour

John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....

. His grandson, the third Baron, was an author and journalist. the title is held by the latter's nephew, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1985.

Barons Kinross (1902)

• John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross
  John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross
  John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....
  
   (1837–1905)
• Patrick Balfour, 2nd Baron Kinross (1870–1939)
• (John) Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976)
• David Andrew Balfour, 4th Baron Kinross (1906–1985)
• Christopher Patrick Balfour, 5th Baron Kinross (b. 1949)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

is the present holder's son the Hon. Alan Ian Balfour (b. 1978)