Dr. John Hutton Balfour 1808 - 1884
Dr. John Hutton Balfour , Professor Of Medicine & Botany Edinr University. 1881 census, he is recorded as Doctor of Medicine, Edinburgh University, retired Professor of Botany Ed. University (not Practicing) attended the University of Edinburgh where he obtained his medical doctorate in 1831 and that year became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a fellow in 1833. He subsequently commenced medical practice, but in 1840 began giving lectueres in botany and in 1841 was appointed professor of botany at the University of Glasgow. In 1845 he moved to the same tenure at Edinburgh, also becoming head of the Royal Botanical Garden and Queen's botanist for Scotland. For 30 years John Hutton Balfour was dean of the medical faculty in Edinburgh, where he first introduced teaching in microscopy. He retired from his tenure in 1879, receiving the honorary L.L.D. from the three universities to which he had been affiliated. Balfour's numerous publications during the years 1862 to 1875 exclusively concern botany. Medical works include the paper describing his disease, and: Bibliography: * Literary and scientific studies in connection with medicine. he is associated with Balfour's disease A disturbance characterized by multiple tumorous masses formed by the bony infiltrates in myelogenous leukemia. Professor of Botany at the Edinburgh University from 1845 up to 1879. He founded the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1836. Also Professor of Botany at the Glasgow University and later Dean of the Medical school at the University of Edinburgh. James Hutton (1726-1797) : Recognition of Hutton as the founder of modern geology was only really advanced by Archibald Geikie (1835-1924) in 1871 of his Scottish School of Geology of which he acknowledged Hutton to be the founder. Interestingly, under Geikie's presidency, the Edinburgh Geological Society established a link with Hutton by electing his descendant, John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), Regius Keeper, Queen's Botanist and Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, as an Honorary Fellow in 1863.
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| Born: Edinburgh, Scotland 15th Sep 1808 | Baptised:
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| | Family: Balfour |
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- 1851 census (head of household - Bellevue cres, Edinburgh, Scotland)
- 1861 census (head of household - Inverleigh Row, St Bernard's, , , , Scotland)
- 1871 census (head of household - 27 Inverleigh Row, Edinburgh, Scotland)
- 1881 census (head of household - Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Timeline
| 15th Sep 1808 | Born (birth) Edinburgh, Scotland | | 8th Aug 1848 | Married Marion Spottiswood Bayley
(Balfour ) 1828 - ante 1881 (marriage) Edinburgh, Scotland | | Mar 1851 | Head of household in 1851 census (census) Edinburgh, Scotland | | 1861 | Head of household in 1861 census (census) Scotland | | 1871 | Head of household in 1871 census (census) Edinburgh, Scotland | | 3rd Apr 1881 | Head of household in 1881 census (census) Edinburgh, Scotland | | 11th Feb 1884 | Died (death) |
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