Balston Spa
Balston may refer to: * Thomas Balston (1883–1967), member of the Whatman paper-making family * Edward Balston (1817–1891), English schoolmaster * ''Nannatherina balstoni Balston's pygmy perch (''Nannatherina balstoni''), also known as Balston's perchlet, or king river perchlet, is a species of temperate perch endemic to Southwest Australia, where it occurs in coastal streams, ponds, lakes, and swamps. It pref ...

Thomas Balston
Thomas Balston (30 July 1883 – 4 October 1967)Who's Who, 1968-1969, A. & C. Black, 1968, p. 144 was a director of the publishers Duckworth and Co., and a noted scholar of English book production and illustration.Collection Title: Thomas Balston Papers, 1946-1948
Rare Book Literary & Historical Papers at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. He was also an amateur painter, having studied under Mark Gertler.Who's Who in Art, vol. 14, The Art Trade Press Ltd, 1962, p. 29

Early years and education

Balston was born at Bearsted House, ,

Edward Balston
Edward Balston (26 November 1817 – 29 November 1891) was an English schoolmaster, Church of England cleric, head master of Eton College from 1862 to 1868 and later Rector of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire, Vicar of Bakewell, Derbyshire, and Archdeacon of Derby. Life Balston was the son of William Balston, a paper-maker, by his marriage to Catherine, daughter of Thomas Vallance, of Cheapside, wholesale stationer. He was born at Maidstone, Kent, on 26 November 1817 and baptised on 23 December. He was educated at Eton, then admitted to King's College, Cambridge, on 21 November 1836, matriculating in the Lent term of 1837. He was the Browne medallist every year from 1836 to 1839 and won the Davies Scholarship in 1839, unusually being elected a Fellow of his college in 1839 before graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1841 and proceeding Master of Arts in 1844. In 1841 he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England and in 1842 a priest. Although Balston held his Fellowship ...
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