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29 de may. de 2018 · Balfour, Francis Maitland (b.Edinburgh, Scotland, 10 November 1851; d. near Courmayeur, Switzerland, 19/20July 1882) embryology. The third son of James Maitland Balfour and Lady Blanche, daughter of the marquis of Salisbury, Francis Balfour came from an illustrious family, the outstanding member of which was his oldest brother, the prominent philosopher and statesman Arthur James Balfour.
Francis Maitland Balfour (known as ‘Frank’ to his familiars) was born into an upper class Edinburgh family in November 1851. The picture of him that is overwhelmingly used in biographical accounts, taken from an oil painting by John Collier, shows him looking slightly ethereal, with a moustache of a type fashionable at the time.
1851-1882. Professor of Animal Morphology. Balfour was born in Edinburgh, the fifth of the eight children (and third son) of James Maitland Balfour, landowner and MP, and Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil, second daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, second marquess of Salisbury. The Conservative prime minister, Arthur James Balfour, was an elder brother; his sister Nora married the philosopher Henry ...
Francis Maitland Balfour (born November 10, 1851, Edinburgh—died July 19, 1882, near Martigny-Ville, Switzerland) was a British zoologist, younger brother of the statesman Arthur James Balfour, and a founder of modern embryology.. His interest in the subject was aroused by the lectures of the British physiologist Michael Foster, and, after graduating from the University of Cambridge in 1873 ...
Biografía Familia y primeros años. Arthur Balfour nación en Whittingehame, Escocia, siendo el hijo mayor de James Maitland Balfour (1820-1856) y Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil (1825-1872).Su padre fue un parlamentario escocés; su madre, miembro de la familia Cecyl, hija del segundo Marqués de Salisbury y hermana del tercer marqués de Salisbury, futuro primer ministro.
7 de jun. de 2022 · James Balfour (c. 1775 – 19 April 1845) was a Scottish nabob who became a landowner and politician. The son of a prosperous and influential Scottish gentry family, he became a trader in India. Having made a fortune supplying the Royal Navy, he returned to Scotland to buy several landed estates, including Whittingehame in East Lothian where he built a classical mansion.
