sentences:  Balfour-Melville was an inaugural inductee into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.Balfour was born in Bonnington, Edinburgh, on 9 March 1854 the son of James Balfour Melville (1815–1898) and his wife, Eliza Ogilvy Heriot Maitland (1821–1887).He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh, he became a lawyer by profession, rising to be a Writer to the Signet.