BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (_3 son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingham, East Lothian 1820–56_). _b._ Queen st. Edinburgh 11 Nov. 1851; ed. at Harrow 1865–70 and Trin. coll. Cam.; natural science scholar 1871; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877; studied at Professor Dohrn’s Zoological station, Naples; fellow of his college Oct. 1874 and lecturer on natural science 1875; F.R.S. 1878, member of council 1881 to death, royal medallist 1881; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical society Nov. 1881; professor of Animal Morphology in Univ. of Cam. 31 May 1882 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1880; edited with E. R. Lankester _The quarterly journal of Microscopical science_; author of _Monograph on the development of Elasmobranch fishes_ 1878; _Treatise on Comparative Embryology_ _2 vols._ 1880–81; left Courmayeur 18 July 1882 to ascend Aiguille Blanche a peak of Mont Blanc his body was found 23 July on Fresnay glacier at foot of the Penteret. _bur._ at Whittingham 5 Aug. 1882. _Fortnightly Review xxxii_, 568–80 (1882); I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), _portrait_; _Report of British Assoc. 1882 meeting pp._ 555–58.
BALFOUR, JAMES. _b._ Russell st. Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1796; served in the navy 5 years; a temperance advocate in London many years; employed in the Ways and Means office of House of Commons 1853. (_m._ 1828 Clara Lucas Liddell). _d._ London road, Croydon 22 Dec. 1884.
BALFOUR, JAMES MELVILLE (_youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour, minister of Colinton near Edin. who d. 24 April 1860 aged 82._) _b._ Manse of Colinton 2 June 1831; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin; marine engineer to province of Otago, New Zealand 1863–65 and to government of N.Z. 1865 to death; invented the Refraction Protractor for lighthouses; designed many lighthouses in N.Z., also the dry dock at Port Chalmers; M.I.C.E. 15 May 1866; drowned off Timaru N.Z. 18 Dec. 1869. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi_, 200–202 (1871.)
BALFOUR, JOHN HUTTON. _b._ 15 Buccleuch place, Edin. 15 Sep. 1808; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1832, M.A., LLD.; apprenticed to Sir George Ballingall; a pres. of Royal Medical Society 1831–33; LLD. Glasgow and St. Andrew’s; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, F.R.C.S. 1835; practised at Edin. 1834–41; Botanical Society of Edin. was founded at his house 15 Dundas st. 8 Feb. 1836; a lecturer on botany in Surgeon sq. 1840; professor of botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1841, and in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to Feb. 1879; regius keeper of Royal botanic garden, and Queen’s botanist for Scotland 1845–79; F.R.S. Edinburgh 1835, F.L.S. 1844, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; dean of the Medical faculty; an editor of _Annals of natural history_ 1842–57 and of _Edinburgh New philosophical journal_ 1855–66; author of _Class book of botany_ 1854, _5 ed._ 1875; _Introduction to study of Palæontological botany_ 1872. _d._ Inverleith house, Edin. 11 Feb. 1884. _The Biograph i_, 430–38 (1882).
BALFOUR, LOWRY VESEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 1819; secretary of the order of St. Patrick 1853 to death. _d._ Dublin 12 Feb. 1878.
BALFOUR, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ Balbirnie Fifeshire 30 April 1846; ensign Grenadier guards 9 Aug. 1865; major 1 April 1882 to death; served in Egypt 1882; wounded at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 9 Sep. 1882. _d._ 24 Belgrave sq. London 23 Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 497 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 605 (1882), _portrait_.
BALGUY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Balguy of Darwent hall, Derbyshire, recorder of Derby who d. 14 Sep. 1833_). _b._ 14 Sep. 1782; barrister M.T. 14 June 1805, bencher 1833; recorder of Derby 1830 to death; Q.C. 1833; chairman of Derbyshire quarter sessions 1837; bankruptcy comr. at Birmingham 21 Oct. 1842 to death. _d._ Duffield hall near Derby 16 Dec. 1858.
BALL, CHARLES ASHBY. _b._ Albury, Surrey 1809; entered the paper business 1826; purchased with his father the Guerres works near Dieppe 1829; founded the Doullens works 1836; purchased the Valvernes works near Dieppe; manufactured paper from esparto and bleached straw; founded the Fort Andemer works 1844; sold his business to La Compagnie des Establishments de la Risle 1869; perfected many important improvements in manufacture of paper. _d._ Sainte Addresse near Havre 27 March 1885.
BALL, FRANCES (_6 and youngest child of John Ball of Dublin, merchant who d. 1808_). _b._ Eccles st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1794; joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mickle Bar convent York 11 June 1814; introduced this Institution into Ireland 1821; assumed name of Sister Mary Theresa 8 Sep. 1814; founded in various parts of the world 37 convents tenanted by about 800 nuns. _d._ Rathfarnham Abbey near Dublin 19 May 1861. _Life by H. J. Coleridge_ 1881, _portrait_; _Life by Wm. Hutch, D.D._ 1879.
BALL, NICHOLAS (_son of John Ball of Dublin, silk mercer_). _b._ Dublin 1791; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1812; called to Irish bar 1814; K.C. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns 1836; M.P. for Clonmel 1836–39; third Serjeant at law 10 Nov. 1836 to 11 July 1838; attorney general 11 July 1838 to 23 Feb. 1839; P.C. Ireland 1838; justice of Irish Court of Common Pleas 23 Feb. 1839 to death. _d._ 85 Stephens Green, Dublin 15 Jany. 1865.
BALL, RICHARD. Lived at Bridgewater, Bristol and Taunton successively; a Friend; joined the Plymouth Brethren; author of _Holy Scripture the test of truth_ 1835; _Christianity in China_ 1850; _Horæ Sabbaticæ or the Sabbatic cycle the divine chronometer_ 1853. _d._ Aberdeen terrace, Clifton 10 May 1862 aged 68. _Smith’s Friends’ Books i_, 161–63 (1867).
BALL, ROBERT (_son of Bob Stawel Ball_). _b._ Cove of Cork 1 April 1802; clerk in under secretary’s office in Dublin 1827–52; F.R.S. Dublin 1834; M.R.I.A. 23 Feb. 1835, treasurer 1845 to death; member of Geol. soc. of Ireland 1835, pres. 1852; sec. to Zoological society of Dub. 1837 to death; director of museum of Trinity college Dub. 1844, presented his valuable private collection to the college; hon. LLD. Dub. 1850; sec. to Queen’s Univ. in Ireland 1851; founded University zoological and botanical association 1853. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1837 Amelia Gresley dau. of Thomas Hellicar of Bristol, merchant, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 4 Oct. 1858). _d._ Dublin 30 March 1857. _Natural history review v_, 1–34 (1858), _portrait_.
BALL, SAMUEL. Member of East India Company’s establishment at Canton 1804–26; author of _Observations on expediency of opening a second port in China_ 1817; _An account of the cultivation and manufacture of tea in China_ 1848. _d._ Sion house, Wolverley 5 March 1874 in 94 year.
BALL, THOMAS GERRARD (_son of Abraham Ball of Chester_). _b._ Chester 24 Jany. 1791; served in navy 1801–1807; ensign 34 foot 17 Sep. 1807; lieut. col. 8 foot 2 Oct. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842 when placed on h.p.; col. 46 foot 24 April 1860 and of 8 foot 17 June 1861 to death; general 10 Jany. 1870. _d._ 7 Stanley place, Chester 18 Dec. 1881.
BALL, WILLIAM (_son of Richard Ball of Bridgwater who d. 1834_). _b._ Bridgwater 1 Jany. 1801; solicitor at Bristol 1828–35; a minister of Society of Friends 1846 to death. (_m._ 1834 Anne Dale, she _d._ 1861). Author of _Nugæ Sacræ or psalms and hymns and spiritual songs_ [_anon._] 1825; _The Transcript and other poems_ 1855; _Hymns or lyrics_ 1864; _Verses composed since 1870_, 1875. _d._ at an hotel in Aberdeen 30 July 1878. _Annual Monitor for 1879 pp._ 8–54.
BALL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; composed hundreds of comic and sentimental songs, his song _Jack’s lament for the loss of his tail_ was one of the most popular songs of the day ever written; his Drawing room concerts in 1829 were very successful; adapted to English words librettos of Masses of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart’s _Requiem_, Spohr’s _God thou art great_, Rossini’s _Stabat Mater_ and Mendelssohn’s _St. Paul_ and _Lobgesang_; edited with N. Mori _The musical gem_, _2 vols._ 1831–32; edited _The London Spring annual lyrical and pictorial_ 1834. _d._ London 14 May 1869.
BALL, SIR WILLIAM KEITH, 2 Baronet (_only child of Sir Alexander John Ball, 1 Baronet_). _b._ Greenwich 27 Oct. 1791; succeeded 25 Oct. 1809. _d._ Spernall hall, Warwickshire 9 March 1874.
BALL-HUGHES, EDWARD HUGHES (_said to be son of a slop seller in Ratcliffe highway, London_). _b._ 1799. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet 7 hussars 28 Aug. 1817 to 11 Feb. 1819 when placed on h.p.; took additional name of Hughes by royal license 7 Aug. 1819 on coming into a fortune of £40,000 per annum from his uncle Admiral Sir Edward Hughes; one of the leading dandies of his day, known as the Golden Ball; lost £45,000 in one night at Wattier’s club, Piccadilly 1819, lost three quarters of his fortune at play, the greatest gambler of his day; bought Oatlands near Weybridge 1827, which he sold to Lord Francis Egerton; lived at St. Germain near Paris for some years before his death. (_m._ 22 March 1823 Mercandotti the opera dancer, natural dau. or protégée of 4 Earl of Fife, she was then aged 16). _d._ St. Germain 13 March 1863. _R. H. Gronow’s Celebrities_ (1865) 112–17.