Balfour, Edward, 1813-1889
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Name (Latin)
Balfour, Edward, 1813-1889
Other forms of name
Balfour, Edward Green, 1813-1889
Date of birth
1813-09-06
Date of death
1889-12-08
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His Cyclopaedia of India and of eastern and southern Asia, commercial, industrial, and scientific, 1985:t.p. (Edward Balfour, L.R.C.S.E., dy. inspector gen. of hospitals, Madras Army, member, Imperial Geological Inst., Vienna)
- LC data base, 3/19/86(hdg.: Balfour, Edward Green, 1813-1889; usage: Edward Balfour)
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Photograph by L. Shyamal - original oil painting by Walter Saunders Barnard (1851–1930) - signed as Walter Barnard 1880., CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikipedia description:
Edward Green Balfour (6 September 1813 – 8 December 1889) was a Scottish surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India. He founded museums at Madras and Bangalore, a zoological garden in Madras and was instrumental in raising awareness on forest conservation and public health in India. He published a Cyclopaedia of India, several editions of which were published after 1857, translated works on health into Indian languages and wrote on a variety of subjects.
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