Dictionary of Indian Biography/Balfour, Francis

by Charles Edward Buckland

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BALFOUR, FRANCIS (before 1769–after 1807)

M.D. at Edinburgh: entered the E.I.Co.'s medical service in Bengal, 1769: and retired, 1807, to Edinburgh: was an intimate friend of Warren Hastings, dedicated a book to him, and corresponded with him from Benares: he wrote The Forms of Herkern, a Persian Letter-writer and contributed papers on Oriental subjects to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, besides writing medical works.