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John Hutton Balfour

1808 - 1884

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John Hutton Balfour (15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in 1845. He held these posts until his retirement in 1879. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hutton Balfour has received more than 235,291 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Hutton Balfour is the 961st most popular biologist (down from 941st in 2019), the 4,873rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,568th in 2019) and the 158th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Hutton Balfour ranks 961 out of 1,097. Before him are William T. Stearn, Charles Sibley, Edward Lhuyd, Ivan Lepyokhin, Édouard Louis Trouessart, and Janet Rowley. After him are Richard Meinertzhagen, Aimée Antoinette Camus, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Alexander Wetmore, Alexander Wendt, and James Chapin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, John Hutton Balfour ranks 70. Before him are Agustín Morales, Hamilton Fish, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Wendela Hebbe, Hugh Falconer, and Teréz Karacs. After him are Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Caroline Norton, John Scott Russell, Hugh McCulloch, James Gall, and Samuel Dakin. Among people deceased in 1884, John Hutton Balfour ranks 69. Before him are Menyhért Lónyay, Heinrich Laube, Tomás Frías, Quintino Sella, George Engelmann, and Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. After him are LeRoy Pope Walker, José Eusebio Otalora, Charles J. Folger, John Kilian, and Wendell Phillips.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hutton Balfour ranks 4,873 out of 8,785. Before him are Gia Scala (1934), Anthony de la Roché (1700), Sarah Waters (1966), Taylor Wane (1968), The Proclaimers (1962), and Leeroy Thornhill (1968). After him are Philippa Pearce (1920), Diana Wynyard (1906), Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), Chris Dreja (1945), Richard K. Guy (1916), and James Oglethorpe (1696).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Hutton Balfour ranks 158. Before him are Irene Manton (1904), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Alister Hardy (1896), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), William T. Stearn (1911), and Edward Lhuyd (1660). After him are Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), Archibald Menzies (1754), Sarah Gilbert (1962), Gilbert White (1720), Hugh Huxley (1924), and Lancelot Hogben (1895).

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