BALFOUR, JOHN HUTTON. _b._ 15 Buccleuch place, Edin. 15 Sep. 1808; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1832, M.A., LLD.; apprenticed to Sir George Ballingall; a pres. of Royal Medical Society 1831–33; LLD. Glasgow and St. Andrew’s; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, F.R.C.S. 1835; practised at Edin. 1834–41; Botanical Society of Edin. was founded at his house 15 Dundas st. 8 Feb. 1836; a lecturer on botany in Surgeon sq. 1840; professor of botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1841, and in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to Feb. 1879; regius keeper of Royal botanic garden, and Queen’s botanist for Scotland 1845–79; F.R.S. Edinburgh 1835, F.L.S. 1844, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; dean of the Medical faculty; an editor of _Annals of natural history_ 1842–57 and of _Edinburgh New philosophical journal_ 1855–66; author of _Class book of botany_ 1854, _5 ed._ 1875; _Introduction to study of Palæontological botany_ 1872. _d._ Inverleith house, Edin. 11 Feb. 1884. _The Biograph i_, 430–38 (1882). BALFOUR, LOWRY VESEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 1819; secretary of the order of St. Patrick 1853 to death. _d._ Dublin 12 Feb. 1878. BALFOUR, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ Balbirnie Fifeshire 30 April 1846; ensign Grenadier guards 9 Aug. 1865; major 1 April 1882 to death; served in Egypt 1882; wounded at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 9 Sep. 1882. _d._ 24 Belgrave sq. London 23 Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 497 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 605 (1882), _portrait_. BALGUY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Balguy of Darwent hall, Derbyshire, recorder of Derby who d. 14 Sep. 1833_). _b._ 14 Sep. 1782; barrister M.T. 14 June 1805, bencher 1833; recorder of Derby 1830 to death; Q.C. 1833; chairman of Derbyshire quarter sessions 1837; bankruptcy comr. at Birmingham 21 Oct. 1842 to death. _d._ Duffield hall near Derby 16 Dec. 1858. BALL, CHARLES ASHBY. _b._ Albury, Surrey 1809; entered the paper business 1826; purchased with his father the Guerres works near Dieppe 1829; founded the Doullens works 1836; purchased the Valvernes works near Dieppe; manufactured paper from esparto and bleached straw; founded the Fort Andemer works 1844; sold his business to La Compagnie des Establishments de la Risle 1869; perfected many important improvements in manufacture of paper. _d._ Sainte Addresse near Havre 27 March 1885. BALL, FRANCES (_6 and youngest child of John Ball of Dublin, merchant who d. 1808_). _b._ Eccles st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1794; joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mickle Bar convent York 11 June 1814; introduced this Institution into Ireland 1821; assumed name of Sister Mary Theresa 8 Sep. 1814; founded in various parts of the world 37 convents tenanted by about 800 nuns. _d._ Rathfarnham Abbey near Dublin 19 May 1861. _Life by H. J. Coleridge_ 1881, _portrait_; _Life by Wm. Hutch, D.D._ 1879.