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:

    “There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,—for the root is faith,—I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)