George Alexander Ballard
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George Alexander Ballard | |
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| Born | March 7, 1862 Bombay, India |
| Died | September 16, 1948 (aged 86) Hill House, Downton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1875–1921 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands | Janus Isis Terrible Hampshire Commonwealth Britannia |
| Battles / wars | Mahdist War, Third Anglo-Burmese War, First World War |
| Other work | Author |
Admiral George Alexander Ballard, CB (7 March 1862 – 16 September 1948) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a historian. Ballard was the eldest son of General John Archibald Ballard (1829–1880), and his wife Joanna, the daughter of Robert Scott-Moncrieff, and was born at Malabar Hill, Bombay on 7 March 1862. He was appointed naval aide-de-camp to the King in May 1913.[1]
After a long and active career in the Navy he retired as Vice-Admiral in 1921 and was advanced to the rank of Admiral on the Retired List in 1924.
During the 1930s he contributed two extensive series of technical articles on the warships of the Mid Victorian Navy to the quarterly Mariner's Mirror, one series on the armoured vessels (which was subsequently republished in a consolidated form in his book The Black Battlefleet) and one on lesser warships.
Archives
- Correspondence and papers, MS 80/200 NRA 20623; National Maritime Museum
- Memoirs, 1988/89; Royal Navy Museum, Portsmouth
Publications
- The Influence of the Sea on the Political History of Japan (John Murray, London, 1921)
- America and the Atlantic (Duckworth & Co, London, 1923)
- Rulers of the Indian Ocean (Duckworth & Co, London, 1927)
- The Black Battlefleet (Nautical Publications Company, 1980)
References
- ^ "No. 28718". The London Gazette. 13 May 1913.
- "Bombay Almanac"
- "The Times" (18 Sept 1948), 4
- "The Times" (28 Sept 1948), 7
- A. J. Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904–1919, 5 vols. (1961–70)
- S. W. Roskill, Hankey, Man of Secrets, 3 vols. (1970–74)
- N. A. Lambert, Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution (1999)