Andrew Balfour

Andrew Balfour FRIBA (1863 – 2 November 1943) was a Scottish architect. Early life Andrew Balfour was born in 1863, the son of the baker Thomas Balfour, of Torryburn, Fife, and his wife Mary Campbell. Career Together with Harry Steele, he established the firm of Steele & Balfour, which made its name through winning a competition to design Largs Parish Church in 1889. Balfour was admitted FRIBA on 11 June 1906. Balfour was the architect of the former bank premises that now house The Drum and Monkey in St. Vincent Street, Glasgow and he designed Gillespie Church in Dunfermline which was completed in 1849.