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Nigel Balchin
Nigel Balchin (3 December 1908 – 17 May 1970)〔http://www.balchin-family.org.uk/NIGEL%20BALCHIN.dwt〕〔Peter Rowland, "Balchin, Nigel Marlin (1908–1970)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, accessed 9 December 2008〕 was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: ''Darkness Falls From the Air'', ''The Small Back Room'' (which popularised the terms "boffin" and "backroom boys") and ''Mine Own Executioner''.
==Life==
He was born Nigel Marlin Balchin〔〔The middle name "Marlin" was inherited from his grandfather, George Marlin Balchin (1830–1898), where it was probably a corruption of Martin. Several members of this Balchin branch have this middle name. 〕 in Potterne, Wiltshire,〔 to William and Ada Balchin. He was educated at Dauntsey's School and Peterhouse, Cambridge,〔 where he took a scholarship and became a Prizeman in Natural Sciences. He then worked for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology between 1930 and 1935, becoming a consultant to JS Rowntree & Sons,〔 where he was intimately involved in the design and marketing of Black Magic chocolates.〔Nigel Balchin, Derek Collett, ''Book and Magazine Collector'', issue 301, December 2008.〕〔(Rowntree's Cocoa Works ), ''Making the Modern World'' study guide, The Science Museum〕 and, he claimed, responsible for the success of the Aero and Kit Kat brands.〔
He wrote for ''Punch'' magazine, published as Mark Spade, and also wrote novels under his own name. During World War II he was a civil servant at the Ministry of Food, and then a successful scientific adviser, rising to the rank of brigadier.
In 1956, he moved abroad to write screenplays in Hollywood and elsewhere, but was increasingly troubled by alcoholism,〔 and returned to England in 1962. He died in 1970 at a nursing home in Hampstead, London,〔 and is buried on the edge of the north path in Hampstead Cemetery in north London. His gravestone is small, but distinctive, having the form of an open book.
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