Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922)

Botanist. BSc, Edinburgh, 1873; MD 1883. Botanist and geologist on an expedition to Rodriguez Island to observe the transit of Venus, 1874. Regius professor of botany, Glasgow, 1879; Sherardian Professor of botany, Oxford, 1884. Founded Annals of Botany in 1887. Professor of botany, Edinburgh, 1888. FRS 1884. Knighted, 1920.