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BALFOUR (1808-1884), M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. and F.R.S.E., Professor of Botany at Glasgow, 1841; and at Edinburgh, 1845; wrote botanical text-books.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _bro_, John Hutton BALFOUR-BROWNE, K.C. (b. 1845), Leader of the Parliamentary Bar; Registrar and Secretary to Railway Comm., 1874; author of numerous legal works.--["Who's Who."] _me bro son_, Isaac Bayley BALFOUR, M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. (b. 1853), King's Botanist in Scotland; Regius Keeper of Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; Professor of Botany at Glasgow and at Oxford, and since 1888 at Edinburgh.--["Who's Who."] Sir John Scott #BURDON-SANDERSON#, Bart., cr. 1899, M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.; held a succession of important offices, beginning with Inspector Med. Dep. Privy Council, 1860-1865; Superintendent Brown Institution, 1871-1878; Professor of Physiology University Coll., London, 1874-1882; in Oxford, 1882-1895; President Brit. Assoc., 1893; Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, 1895-1904; served on three Royal Commissions; author of many physiological memoirs.--["Ency. Brit.," xxvi. 464; "Who's Who."] _fa fa_, Sir Thomas BURDON, Kt., several times Mayor of Newcastle, knighted for his services in quelling a riot. _me fa_, Sir James SANDERSON, Bart., M.P., Lord Mayor of London; a successful merchant. _fa_, Richard BURDON-SANDERSON, graduated first class and gained Newdigate prize; Fellow of Oriel Coll., Oxford; was Secretary to Lord Chancellor Eldon. _bro_, Richard BURDON-SANDERSON, the first promoter of the "Conciliation Board" of coal-owners and colliers at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and of the first reformatory in Northumberland. _si son_, Rt. Hon. Richard Burdon HALDANE (b. 1856), P.C., M.P., high honours at Edinburgh and three other Scotch universities; author of "Life of Adam Smith" and of "Memoirs on Education."--["Who's Who."] _si son_, John Scott HALDANE (b. 1860), q.v., M.D., F.R.S., University Lecturer on Physiology at Oxford; joint editor and founder of "Journal of Hygiene."--["Who's Who."] _si da_, Elizabeth Sanderson HALDANE (q.v.). _More distant kinsmen and connections:_ _fa me bro_, John SCOTT, first Earl of ELDON (1751-1838), famous Lord Chancellor of England.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa me bro_, William SCOTT (1745-1836), first Baron STOWELL, eminent maritime and international lawyer; judge of High Court of Admiralty, (1798-1828).--["Dict. N. Biog."] _wife's bro_,
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