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Authorised form of nameBall; John (1818 - 1889)
Dates1818 - 1889
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth20 August 1818
Place of deathHis house, 10 Southwell Gardens, South Kensington
Date of death21 October 1889
OccupationBarrister
Research fieldNatural history
Botany
ActivityEducation:
Oscott College; Christ's College, Cambridge. MA
Career:
Travelled in Europe; studied the Alps; called to the Irish Bar (1845); Assistant Poor Law Commissioner (1846-1847 and 1849-1851); MP for Carlow (1852); Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (1855-1857);
Memberships:
FLS; MRIA; Alpine Club (first President 1857)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1868
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1882-1883
RelationshipsEldest son of Nicholas Ball, Judge of the Court of Common Please, Ireland, and his wife Janes Sherlock of Butlerstown Castle, County Waterford; married twice
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1889-1890 vol 47 pp v-ix signed by J D H
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/107533367
CodeNA6334
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/4/38Letter from John Ball, Colonial Office, to John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley6 March 1857
MM/4/37Letter from John Ball, Colonial Office, to John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley11 March 1857
NLB/3/216Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Ball, Fellow of the Royal Society12 April 1889
NLB/1/622Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Ball, Fellow of the Royal Society10 October 1887
NLB/3/235Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Ball, Fellow of the Royal Society16 April 1889
NLB/3/502Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Ball, Fellow of the Royal Society27 June 1889
MC/15/17Letter from [Edward] Percival Wright, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, to [Herbert] Rix15 February 1889
MS/427/146Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to J. Ball Esq.2 December 1881
EC/1868/06Ball, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
NLB/14/221Copy letter from Theodore E James, to William Turner Thiselton Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Sectional Committee of Botany23 January 1897
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
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