William Alexander Francis Balfour-Browne FRSE FZS FLS PRMS (1874–1967), known as Frank,[1] was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Dytiscidae (diving beetles).
Life and work[]
Balfour-Browne was born at 16 Ebury Street in London to John Hutton Balfour-Browne KC (d.1921) and Caroline Lush.[2]
He was educated at St Paul's School. As a child he was keenly interested in water beetles, and the group became the subject of his research throughout his life.[1] He studied botany at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was then called to the bar in 1898. He returned to Oxford to study zoology the following year.[3] Beginning in 1906 he taught biology at the Belfast College of the Royal University of Ireland (now known as Queen's University Belfast). In 1913 he became a lecturer in the University of Cambridge. During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[2]
He was Professor of Entomology at Imperial College from 1925 to 1930 and was a friend of Robert Lloyd Praeger.
Balfour-Browne was the author of a Text-book of Practical Entomology, British Water Beetles published by the Ray Society, Concerning the Habits of Insects and many scientific papers, mainly on entomology. Balfour-Browne was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. He died in Edinburgh on 28 September 1967.[2]
Family[]
He married in Glasgow on 4 October 1902 Elizabeth Lochhead Carslaw, daughter of Rev. Dr. Carslaw.[2]
His son John Balfour-Browne was also an entomologist, who became a Principal Scientific Officer at the Natural History Museum, London.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gay, Hannah (2007). The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology and Medicine. Imperial College Press. pp. 175. https://books.google.com/books?id=x4u4ikoj1M8C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=William+Alexander+Francis+Balfour+Browne&source=bl&ots=_HiMtUY0QZ&sig=R5NLDLr9mhB2MK_hGs007itr0EI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ETTYUqn1Iu2V7Aa5yYHAAw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=William%20Alexander%20Francis%20Balfour%20Browne&f=false.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
- ↑ "BALFOUR-BROWNE, Professor William Alexander Francis (1874-1967)". Archives Hub. http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb098-b/balfour-browne. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
- ↑ "Browne; John William Alexander Francis Balfour-". Natural History Museum. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/library/archives/catalogue/DServe.exedsqServer=placid&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code==%27PX485%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
Sources[]
- Angus, R. B. 1967: [Balfour-Browne, W. A. F.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3), London 103:286-288, Portrait
External links[]
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