Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour

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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

Thomas Balfour was born in Edinburgh to Andrew Balfour and Magdalene Goldie Balfour.''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950'' He graduated at the

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, Medical School, in 1851 with the thesis ''Alcohol as an etiological agent''. He became a member of the

Botanical Society of Edinburgh The Botanical Society of Scotland (BSS) is the national learned society for botanists of Scotland. The Society's aims are to advance knowledge and appreciation of flowering and cryptogamic plants, algae and fungi. The Society's activities includ ...

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

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* 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