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James Maitland Balfour (5 January 1820 – 23 February 1856), of Whittinghame, East Lothian, was a Scottish land-owner and businessman. He made a fortune in the 19th-century railway boom, and inherited a significant portion of his father's great wealth.
zoobalfouroriginalcrop2small.jpg Balfour was Professor of Animal Morphology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Books were given by his family to form the nucleus of the Zoological Department Library. The collection comprised over 500 books plus 77 bound pamphlets.
Balfour died at Whittingehame in April 1845, aged about 70. He was survived by his wife, Lady Eleanor, two sons, and two daughters. Another two daughters and a son predeceased him. The surviving children were: James Maitland Balfour (1820–1856), MP for Haddington Burghs 1841–47, father of five sons and three daughters
James Maitland Balfour was the son of James Balfour born 1785 Scotland and died 1845 Scotland and Lady Eleanor Maitland born 3 10 1790 Scotland and died 23 5 1869 Scotland. They married 19 01 1815 Scotland and had five children.
Arthur James Balfour was born on 25 July 1848, the son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame and Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne Cecil. The entry in the Old Parish Register for Whittingehame shows that he was baptised on 2 August by the Reverend James Traill, minister of Trinity Episcopal Chapel in Haddington.
The son of James Maitland Balfour and a nephew of Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury, Balfour was a member of a highly intellectual, wealthy, and aristocratic circle. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College , Cambridge , and, upon leaving Cambridge, he entered Parliament as a Conservative member for Hertford.
Obra. Balfour fue uno de los más célebres fundadores de la embriología evolutiva, convirtiéndose en un antecedente de la moderna evo-devo. Su Tratado sobre embriología comparada (1880 - 1881) fue escrito tanto para ofrecer un fundamento embriológico a la filogenia como para dotar de un contexto evolutivo a los estudios sobre la ...
