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Thomas Balston
Thomas Balston (1883–1967) was a member of the Whatman paper-making family, a director of the publishers Duckworth and Co., and a noted scholar of English book production and illustration.〔(Mark Gertler (1891 - 1939) ) Ashmolean Museum, 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.〕〔(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. Balston was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, and prior to being called to the bar in 1909, served as tutor to Count Gianbattista Spaletti and his brother Count Cesare Spaletti in Italy. From 1912 to 1914, he was secretary to the publisher T. Fisher Unwin.〔http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/b/ba30-001〕
Balston was awarded the Military Cross and an O.B.E. by 1940, at which time he was a Major on the Army's General List,〔Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Cambridgeshire, Andrew Ellis et al, Public Catalogue Foundation, 2006, pg 207〕〔Supplement to the London Gazette 26 April 1940, pg 2463- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34837/supplement/2463/data.pdf〕 having served during the First World War with the 12th Gloucestershire Regiment in France and Belgium from 1914-1919, as a staff captain with the 96th Infantry Brigade from 1915-17, and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General to the 3rd Division and 3rd Brigade from 1917-18 and 1918-19 respectively. His service in the Second World War came to an end when he was invalided out after three months due to suffering from pneumonia, having been called to Southern Command as a staff captain.
==Book illustration==
At Duckworth from 1921 to 1934, Balston promoted the work of English wood engravers. He produced several books on the history of the subject.
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