# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hutton-balfour
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:24:43.786Z

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description: "John Hutton Balfour was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in 1845. He held these posts until his retirement in 1879. He was nicknamed Woody Fibre."
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birthDate: "1808-09-15"
deathDate: "1884-02-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump