Thomas A. G. Balfour

Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour FRCPE, FRSE (28 May 1825 – 10 March 1895)[1] was a Scottish physician and botanist.[2] He was the father of Sir Andrew Balfour.[3]

Life

Balfour was born in Edinburgh to Andrew Balfour and Magdalene Goldie Balfour.[4] He graduated at the University of Edinburgh, Medical School, in 1851 with the thesis 'Alcohol as an etiological agent'.[5] He became a member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1868, and served as President of the society from 1877–1879, subsequently continuing as a Vice-President and Councillor.[2] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1870.[2] He died in Edinburgh in 1895.

Works
  • The Typical Character Of Nature, Or, All Nature A Divine Symbol

References
  1. Br. Med. J. 23 March 1895; 1(1786): 679.
  2. Andrew Taylor (1896). "Obituary Notice Of Dr. Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.S.E." Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 20 (1–4): 449–451. doi:10.1080/03746609609468895.
  3. "Munks Roll Details for Andrew (Sir) Balfour". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk.
  4. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950
  5. Balfour, Thomas A. G. (1851). "Alcohol as an etiological agent".


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