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Balmain may refer to: Places * Balmain, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Electoral district of Balmain, an electoral division in New South Wales, Australia * Balmain East, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Balmain House and country estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland People with the surname * Allan Balmain, Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) * Louis Balmain (1858–1904), New Zealand cricketer * Pierre Balmain Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (; 18 May 1914 – 29 June 1982) was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain (fashion house), Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art of dre ... (1914–1982), French fashion designer * William Balmain (1762–1803), Scottish-born surgeon at the first European settlement in Sydney Other * Balmain bug, a crustacean, slipper lobster * Balmain (fashion house), founded by Pierr ...
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Balmain, New South Wales
Balmain is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Inner West Council. It is located on the Balmain peninsula surrounded by Port Jackson, adjacent to the suburbs of Rozelle to the south-west, Birchgrove, New South Wales, Birchgrove to the north-west, and Balmain East to the east. Iron Cove sits on the western side of the peninsula, with White Bay (New South Wales), White Bay on the south-east side and Mort's Dock, Mort Bay on the north-east side. Traditionally Blue-collar worker, blue collar, Balmain was where the industrial roots of the trade unionist movement began. It has become established in Australian working-class culture and history, due to being the place where the Australian Labor Party formed in 1891 and its social history and status is of high cultural significance to both Sydney and New South Wales. Today, t ...
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Electoral District Of Balmain
Balmain is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Regions of Sydney, Sydney's Inner West. It is currently represented by Kobi Shetty of the Greens New South Wales, Greens. Geography On its current boundaries, Balmain includes the suburbs and localities of Annandale, New South Wales, Annandale, Balmain, New South Wales, Balmain, Balmain East, New South Wales, Balmain East, Birchgrove, New South Wales, Birchgrove, Forest Lodge, New South Wales, Forest Lodge, Glebe, New South Wales, Glebe, Glebe Island, New South Wales, Glebe Island, Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt, Lilyfield, New South Wales, Lilyfield, Rozelle, New South Wales, Rozelle, White Bay (New South Wales), White Bay and parts of Camperdown, New South Wales, Camperdown and Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo. History Balmain was established in 1880 and from 1882, it e ...
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Balmain East, New South Wales
Balmain East is a suburb in the Inner West (Sydney), Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Balmain East is located three kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Inner West Council. Situated on the eastern end of the Balmain peninsula in Sydney Harbour, Balmain East shares a boundary with the suburb of Balmain, New South Wales, Balmain to the west. The postcode 2041 covers the suburbs of Balmain, Balmain East and Birchgrove, New South Wales, Birchgrove. History and culture The area now known as Balmain East was part of a 550-acre (2.2 km2) grant to colonial surgeon Dr. William Balmain (1762–1803) made in 1800 by John Hunter (Royal Navy officer), Governor John Hunter. Balmain was first settled in 1836 and by 1861 had been divided into the well populated eastern areas of Balmain and the sparsely populated western area, extending to the gates of Callan Park. T ...
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Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Aberdeenshire (historic), Aberdeenshire, which had substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area includes all of the areas of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire except the area making up Aberdeen City Council area, as well as part of Banffshire. The historic county boundaries are still officially used for a few purposes, namely land registration and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy. Aberdeenshire Council is headquartered at Woodhill House in Aberdeen, making it the only Scottish council whose headquarters are located outside its jurisdiction. Aberdeen itself forms a different council area (Aberdeen City). Aberdeenshire borders onto Angus, Scotland, Angus and Perth and Kinross to the south, Highland (council area), Highland and Moray to the west a ...
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Allan Balmain
Allan Balmain is a British academic is a Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Education Balmain was educated at the University of Glasgow where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1966, followed by a PhD on the organic chemistry of terpenoid The terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are a class of naturally occurring organic compound, organic chemicals derived from the 5-carbon compound isoprene and its derivatives called terpenes, diterpenes, etc. While sometimes used interchangeabl ...s in 1969. Awards and honours Balmain was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads: Balmain was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 1995. References Living people Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Glasgow University of California, San Francisco faculty ...
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Louis Balmain
This is a list of cricketers who played first-class cricket for the Nelson cricket team in New Zealand. Nelson played a total of 17 first-class matches between the 1873–74 season and 1891–92, all but one of which were played against Wellington.McCarron, p. 4.Carman AH (1981) ''A guide to first-class matches played in New Zealand, 1863 to 1980'', p. 12. Nottingham: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.Available onlineat The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2024-12-25.) The team has competed in the Hawke Cup competition for minor associations from 1921–22. Players are listed with the seasons in which they played. Some players also appeared in first-class or Hawke Cup matches for other sides. A * Joseph Adcock * John Arnold * William Arnold * James Askew * Frederick Atkinson B * Louis Balmain * David Barnett * Andrew Bennett * Alfred Bigg-Wither * James Bigg-Wither * Edward Boddington * Henry Boddington * Samuel Bolton ...
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Pierre Balmain
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (; 18 May 1914 – 29 June 1982) was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain (fashion house), Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art of dressmaking as "the architecture of movement". Early life Balmain's father, who died when the future designer was seven, owned a wholesale drapery business. His mother, Françoise, ran a fashion boutique called Galeries Parisiennes with her sisters. He went to school at Chambéry and, during weekends with his uncle in the spa town of Aix-les-Bains, his interest in couture fashion was inspired by society women he met. Balmain began studying architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, École des Beaux-Arts in 1933, also undertaking freelance work drawing for the designer Robert Piguet. Career After visiting the studio of Edward Molyneux in 1934, he was offered a job, leaving his studies and working for the designer for th ...
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William Balmain
William Balmain (2 February 1762 – 17 November 1803) was a Scottish-born naval surgeon and civil administrator who sailed as an assistant surgeon with the First Fleet to establish the first European settlement in Australia, and later to take up the appointment of the principal surgeon, for New South Wales. Early life and career Balmain was born at Balhepburn in the Parish of Rhynd, Perthshire, Scotland, to Alexander Balmain (b. 1714), tenant farmer, and his second wife, Jane Henderson. Little is known of his early life but in 1779 he was enrolled as a medical student at Edinburgh University. Next year he entered the Royal Navy to train as a Surgeon's Mate. From November 1784 he served on ''Nautilus'' during a survey of the Das Voltas region of South West Africa (Namibia) which the British government was considering as a possible destination for the convicts then overcrowding British prisons and hulks. On 21 October 1786 Balmain applied to join the group of officers to establ ...
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Balmain Bug
Balmain may refer to: Places * Balmain, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Electoral district of Balmain, an electoral division in New South Wales, Australia * Balmain East, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Balmain House and country estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland People with the surname * Allan Balmain, Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) * Louis Balmain (1858–1904), New Zealand cricketer * Pierre Balmain Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (; 18 May 1914 – 29 June 1982) was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain (fashion house), Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art of dre ... (1914–1982), French fashion designer * William Balmain (1762–1803), Scottish-born surgeon at the first European settlement in Sydney Other * Balmain bug, a crustacean, slipper lobster * Balmain (fashion house), founded by Pierr ...
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Balmain (fashion House)
Pierre Balmain S.A. (), trading as Balmain, is a Economy of France, French luxury Fashion design, fashion house that was founded by Pierre Balmain (1914–1982) in 1945. It operates over 50 stores. Its primary flagship is located on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. Additional flagship locations are in Tokyo, New York City, London, and on Via Montenapoleone fashion district, Via Montenapoleone in Milano. This includes six stores in the United States including in on Madison Avenue in New York City, Bal Harbour, Florida, Bal Harbour, Las Vegas, and Melrose Place in Los Angeles. Balmain was acquired by Qatari Crown investment firm Mayhoola for Investments for a figure reportedly close to €500 million ($548 million) in 2016.Valentino’s Qatari Owners Acquire Balmain< ...
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