Who founded the college attended by Thomas Balston, member of the Whatman paper-making family?
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. 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.
Gutchess College (Connecticut) Gutchess College was a business college in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. It was founded as Brown's Business College in 1896 with a focus on typing, stenography, telegraphy and bookkeeping. It was later purchased by Stephen D. Gutchess who in 1911 was operating the school with an annual enrollment of about 500. It was still operating in 1920.