Baron Riverdale

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{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}

{{Infobox nobility title
| name =
| image = Riverdale Achievement.png
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| caption = Per chevron argent and sable, in chief two crosses pattée of the second, and in base a sun in splendour per pale or and of the first.
| creation_date = 27 June 1935
| creation =
| monarch = [[George V|King George V]]
| peerage = [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
| baronetage =
| first_holder = [[Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale|Sir Arthur Balfour, 1st Baronet]]
| last_holder =
| present_holder = [[Anthony Balfour, 3rd Baron Riverdale]]
| heir_apparent =
| heir_presumptive =
| remainder_to = 1st Baron's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
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| motto = ''In arduis fidelis'' ("Faithful in difficulties")<ref name="burke"/>
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'''Baron Riverdale''', of [[Sheffield]] in the [[County of York]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34176 |date=2 July 1935 |page=4271}}</ref> It was created on 27 June 1935 for the Sheffield steel manufacturer [[Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale|Sir Arthur Balfour, 1st Baronet]], Chairman of Arthur Balfour & Co Ltd.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |pages=3351–3352 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

Balfour had already been created a [[baronet]], of Sheffield in the County of York, in the [[Baronetage of the United Kingdom]], on 26 June 1929.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33516 |date=12 July 1929 |page=4622}}</ref> He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He was chairman and president of Balfour & Darwins Ltd (formerly Arthur Balfour & Co Ltd) as well as president of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. He was a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.<ref name="burke"/>

Since 1998, the titles have been held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1998. He is the only son of the Hon. Mark Robin Balfour, eldest son of the second Baron.<ref name="burke"/>

==Barons Riverdale (1935)==
*[[Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale]] (1873–1957)
*Robert Arthur Balfour, 2nd Baron Riverdale (1901–1998)
**Hon. Mark Robin Balfour (1927–1995)
*Anthony Robert Balfour, 3rd Baron Riverdale (born 1960)

The [[heir presumptive]] is the present holder's uncle the Hon. David Rowland Balfour (born 1938).

==Line of Succession==
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* [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] ''Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale (1873–1957)''{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
** [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] ''Robert Arthur Balfour, 2nd Baron Riverdale (1901–1998)''
*** ''Hon. Mark Robin Balfour (1927–1995)''
**** [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] '''Anthony Robert Balfour, 3rd Baron Riverdale''' (born 1960)
*** '''(1)''' ''Hon.'' David Rowland Balfour (b. 1938)
** ''Hon. Francis Henry Balfour (1905–1994)''
*** '''(2)''' Arthur Michael Balfour (b. 1938)
**** '''(3)''' Edward Francis Balfour (b. 1965)
**** '''(4)''' James Henry Balfour (b. 1966)
*** '''(5)''' Jeremy Ralph Balfour (b. 1948)
**** '''(6)''' Robert Henry Balfour (b. 1980)
**** '''(7)''' Andrew James Balfour (b. 1991)
**** '''(8)''' Daniel Mark Balfour (b. 1991)
***** '''(9)''' William Henry Balfour (b. 2023)
{{tree list/end}}

==References==
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{{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}}

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[[Category:Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Noble titles created in 1935]]
[[Category:Clan Balfour]]

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