page_title: Thomas Balston
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Balston
caption_attribution_description: English: Thomas Balston in 1921 by Mark Gertler.
context_page_description: Thomas Balston OBE MC was a director of the publishers Duckworth and Co., and a noted scholar of English book production and illustration. He was also an amateur painter, having studied under Mark Gertler.
context_section_description: Thomas Balston  OBE MC  (30 July 1883– 4 October 1967) was a director of the publishers Duckworth and Co., and a noted scholar of English book production and illustration. He was also an amateur painter, having studied under Mark Gertler.
caption: Thomas Balston. Mark Gertler, oil on canvas, 1921. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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