Francis Balfour-Browne

William Alexander Francis Balfour-Browne FRSE FZS FLS PRMS (1874–1967), known as Frank, was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Dytiscidae (diving beetles).

Life and work Balfour-Browne was born at 16 Ebury Street in London to John Hutton Balfour-Browne KC (d.1921) and Caroline Lush.

He was educated at St Paul's School. As a child he was keenly interested in water beetles, and the group became the subject of his research throughout his life. Beginning in 1906 he taught biology at the Belfast College of the Royal University of Ireland (now known as Queen's University Belfast). In 1913 he became a lecturer in the University of Cambridge.

During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps.