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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