Stephen Bloomer Balch (April 5, 1747 – September 7, 1833) was a Presbyterian minister and educator in Georgetown, which is now part of Washington, D.C.

[1] He attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), where his classmates included Aaron Burr and William Bradford, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1774.

Around this time, Balch also became headmaster of the Columbian Academy in Georgetown, which is where George Washington sent his nephews.

His wife died in 1827, and a year later at age 82 he married Elizabeth King, who survived the ceremony only eighteen days.

[3] Balch was originally interred in the narthex of Georgetown Presbyterian Church at 30th and M Streets NW beneath a small pyramidal marble stone.

His remains were disinterred and reburied at Presbyterian Burying Ground (the church's cemetery) in the spring of 1873.