title: Balchin
text: # Balchin
  
  Balchin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Cassandra Balchin (1962–2012), British women's rights activist, daughter of Nigel
  * Elliot Balchin (born 1990), British actor
  * John Balchen (1670–1744), sometimes spelled Balchin, Royal Navy Admiral of the White
  * Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), British novelist and screenwriter, father of Cassandra
  * Robert Balchin, Baron Lingfield (born 1942), British educationalist
  