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About Alice Blanche Balfour
Miss Alice Balfour. Came as a "tourist” with her brother, the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour and party in 1894. She wrote the book "Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon” which describes their journey through Rhodesia and on to Beira. P. 230 "Experiences of Rhodesia's Pioneer Women,” by Jeannie M. Boggie and pp. 11 and 128 “The World's View,” by Nora S. Kane.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Blanche_Balfour
Alice Blanche Balfour FRES (20 October 1850 – 12 June 1936) was a Scottish naturalist and one of the earliest female pioneers in the science of genetics. She was born on 20 October 1850 at Whittingehame House in East Lothian, the daughter of Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil (1825–1872) and James Maitland Balfour. She lived much of her adult life in London with her brother Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. Her brother Francis Maitland Balfour was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 27 for his work on embryology.
She developed a lifelong interest in entomology and later developed an interest in genetics and in particular the way that the patterns in zebra skins were inherited. She had a lengthy correspondence with James Cossar Ewart Professor of Zoology at University of Edinburgh who himself had a professional interest in the development of the horse. The correspondence relates to the possibility of cross-breeding zebra with horses to reduce the impact of tsetse fly on horses in Africa.
In 1895 she published the book Twelve Hundred miles in a Waggon which describes a trip taken by herself, H. W. Fitzwilliam, Albert Grey and his wife, and Albert Grey's cousin George Grey. See https://archive.org/stream/twelvehundredmil00balf#page/n9 (Internet Archive Bookreader)
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London on 7 June 1916.
Balfour died on 12 June 1936 at Wittingehame House.
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Alice Blanche Balfour's Timeline
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October 20, 1850
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Whittingehame House, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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| 1936 |
June 12, 1936
Age 85
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Whittingehame House, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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