# Edward Green Balfour

> Edward Green Balfour 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.

*British (Scottish) surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India (1813 - 1889)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Born:** 1813-09-06
- **Died:** 1889-12-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Edward Green Balfour 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.

## Fame
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## Sources
- [Edward Balfour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Balfour)
- [Edward Balfour](https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Balfour)
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