Born.1

Date calculated from age at death

Mentioned in Will.2

of John Belfour
Described as - "my sons John, James, Edward and Okey"

Freedom of the City of London.3,4

Admitted

From the Alphabets of Freedoms of the City of London :-
June 1794
"Belfour, John, Wheelwrights, R"

From the Freedom Admission Papers :-
By Redemption
Wheelwrights - 17 June
"Son of John Belfour late of Highgate Stock Broker died"
Fee - 46 shillings and 8 pence.

Witness at wedding in St George Hanover Square.5

of Edward Belfour & Catherine Ann Greenwell

Advertisment.6

From the Morning Post :-
"SPANISH LITERATURE
This Day are published, with Plates, price 7s. 6d. in boards, FABLES on Subjects connected with Literature, imitated from the Spanish of DON TOMAS DE YRIARTE. By JOHN BELFOUR, Esq.
The Fables of YRIARTE (a name little known in this country, though warmly applauded on the Continent by every admirer of Spanish Poetry), differ from those of other Fabulists in this, that their moral, or application, always turns on literary points; and begin or conclude, with apothegms, allusive mere to Authors and to Books, than to the follies of individuals, or the errors of common life. - Vide Preface, page 3'.
Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange"

Birth of daughter Eliza BELFOUR

Bankruptcy.7

From the London Gazette :-
Whereas the acting Commissioners in the Commission of Bankrupt awarded and issued forth against John Belfour, of Capel-court, Bartholomew-lane, in the City of London,  Broker, Dealer, and Chapman, have certified to the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, that the said John Belfour hath in all things confirmed himself according to the directions of the several Acts of Parliament made concerning Bankrupts; This is to give notice, that, by virtue of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, and also of another Act passed in the Forty-nineth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, his Certificate will be allowed and confirmed as the said Acts direct, unless cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the 13th day of February next"

Witness at wedding in St Marylebone.8

of Okey Belfour and Mary Ann Greenwell

Death of daughter Eliza BELFOUR in Highgate.15

Death of Angelina Rachel Mendes in St Luke, City Road.16,17,18,9

Registered death in Saint Luke, City Road.9

of his wife Angelina Belfour

Wrote will.10

1) This is the last will and testament
2) of me John Belfour of Westmoreland Place City Road in the County of Middlesex
3) Gentleman ....... my body
4) may be decently interred in the same grave with my late dear father and mother and
5) my late dear wife and daughter ... ...

Some names mentioned .-
1) my brother Edward Belfour
2) my nephew Henry Belfour son of my deceased brother the Rev. Okey Belfour
3) my friend Alfred ???
4) Meunier de Ville of Westmoreland Place aforesaid widow

Codicil to Will.10

Some names mentioned :-
1) my nephew Henry Okey James Belfour
2) Madame Meunier de Ville widow

Died in Westmoreland Place.11,12,1,13

From the London Standard :-
"In the City-road, aged 74, John Belfour, Esq."

From the Gentleman's Magazine :-
"Lately. in the City Road, aged 74, John Belfour, esq. M.R.S.L.
Mr. Belfour's attainments and critical sagacity, in languages and archaeology, were entitled to respect. He was a proficient in several modern tongues, in particular Spanish, from which, early in his life, he translated and published a poem entitled "Music" by Don Tomas de Yriarte. Mr. Belfour had likewise studied with success the Hebrew and some other languages of the East. Latterly Egyptian and Babylonian Antiquities had become especially subjects of his investigations; in these and other topics of learned research, he from time to time communicated a number of ingenious papers to the Royal Society of Literature; one of which, entitle "Remarks on Certain Alphabets in use among the Jews." is printed in the Society's Transactions, vol. iii, pp. 136-142, and some others are noticed in the printed minutes of the Society's Proceedings. The only work, we believe, published by Mr. Belfour, besides the translation mentioned above, is "Odes in Honour of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent; with other Poems, 1812." of which only 25 copies were printed."

Buried in Bunhill Fields.14

Abode - Westmoreland Place City Road
Age - 74

Probate in Prerogative Court of Canterbury.10

Executors :-
1) Henry Okey James Belfour the nephew
2) Ann Meurnier de Ville

Married Angelina Rachel Mendes

ODNB.1

For more information see his entry in the online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography :-
Thompson Cooper
"Belfour, John (1768-1842)", rev. Roger T. Stearn
Oxford Dictionary of Biography,
Oxford University Press, 2004
http://www.oxforddnb.org/view/article/1991
Online edition