Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour FRCPE,

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(28 May 1825 – 10 March 1895) was a Scottish physician and botanist. He was the father of Sir Andrew Balfour.

Life

Balfour was born in Edinburgh to Andrew Balfour and Magdalene Goldie Balfour.''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950'' He graduated at the University of Edinburgh, Medical School, in 1851 with the thesis ''Alcohol as an etiological agent''. 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. He became a Fellow of the

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in 1870. He died in Edinburgh in 1895.

Works

* '' The Typical Character Of Nature, Or, All Nature A Divine Symbol''

References

1825 births 1895 deaths Thomas Alexander Goldie 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Medical doctors from Edinburgh {{Scotland-med-bio-stub