Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour | |
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| Born | 31 March 1853 27 Inverleith Row, Edinburgh |
| Died | 30 November 1922 (aged 69) Court Hill, Haslemere, Surrey |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | University of Edinburgh (BSc); University of Glasgow (LLD) |
| Occupation | botanist |
| Known for | Major reform of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh including establishing a botanical institute and redeveloping the facilities and layout of the Garden. Founding the botanical journal ‘Annals of Botany’ and championing the use of surgical dressings of dried sphagnum moss in the First World War. |
| Spouse | Agnes Boyd Balloch |
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| Awards | Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society (1919) |
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| Author abbrev. (botany) | Balf.f. |
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1884 to 1888, and Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh from 1888 to 1922.