David Balfour

David Balfour may refer to:

  • David Balfour (1574–1634), Scottish-Danish shipbuilder, director of Bremerholm
  • David Balfour, the main character and narrator in the books Kidnapped and Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • An alternative title to the above mentioned novel Catriona
  • David A. Balfour (1889–1956), Canadian politician
  • David Paton Balfour (1841–1894), New Zealand sheepfarmer, station manager, roading supervisor and diarist

Famous quotes containing the word david:

    “His life itself passes deeper in nature than the studies of the naturalist penetrate; himself a subject for the naturalist. The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide. He gets his living by barking trees. Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)