John Hutton Balfour
Botanist, Author
1808 – 1884
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Who was John Hutton Balfour?
John Hutton Balfour FRSE FRS FRCSE FLS MWS was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to Edinburgh University and also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in 1845. He held these posts until his retirement in 1879. Balfour's sister, Magdelene Balfour, married William A. F. Browne, the well known phrenologist and asylum reformer.
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- Born
- Sep 15, 1808
Edinburgh - Also known as
- Бальфур, Джон Хаттон
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Scottish people
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Education
- University of St Andrews
- University of Edinburgh
- Royal High School, Edinburgh
- Lived in
- Edinburgh
- Died
- Feb 11, 1884
Edinburgh
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on July 23, 2013
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