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Life and work [ edit ]
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] 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] 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]
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 [ edit ]
^ "BALFOUR-BROWNE, Professor William Alexander Francis (1874-1967)" . Archives Hub. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014 .
^ "Browne; John William Alexander Francis Balfour-" . Natural History Museum. Retrieved 16 January 2014 .
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