Record

Code	PX2091
Dates	1808-1884
Person Name	Balfour; John Hutton (1808-1884); Botanist
Surname	Balfour
Forenames	John Hutton
Epithet	Botanist
Activity	1827 he was apprenticed to the professor of military surgery, Sir George Ballingall. On graduating as an MD in 1832 he went to Paris to continue his surgical studies before returning to Edinburgh in 1834 to take up private practice. 1835 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and served as its secretary for 10 years. In 1836 he established the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and in 1838 he founded the Edinburgh Botanical Club. In 1840 he began lecturing at the Edinburgh Academical School of Medicine and in 1841 he obtained the chair at Glasgow University which had been vacated by Sir William Hooker. In 1845 he returned to Edinburgh as professor of medicine and botany became regius keeper of the Royal Botanical Garden and was appointed Queen's botanist for Scotland. He retired in 1879. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society 1856.
Relationships	Eldest son of Andrew Balfour, an army surgeon and Magdalene, daughter of the Revd George Goldie, an Edinburgh minister Married Marion Spottiswood Bayley, daughter of Isaac Bayley. Had several children including Isaac Balfour Bayley (1853 - 1922)

Catalogue

RefNo	Title	Source
DF/BOT/404/1/1/24	Balfour, John H

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