John Hutton Balfour FRSE FRS FRCSE FLS MWS (15 September 1808, Edinburgh – 11 February 1884, Inverleith House, Edinburgh) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to Edinburgh University and also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 1845. He held these posts until his retirement in 1879. Balfour's sister, Magdelene Balfour, married William A. F. Browne (1805–1885), the well known phrenologist and asylum reformer.
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