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     Janet Ballard was born in 1862 at Salford, Lancashire, , England.¹ She was the daughter of James Henry Ballard.¹ Janet Ballard appeared on the census of 5 April 1891 in the household of Mary Ellen Ballard at The Hollies, Church Road, Manchester, Lancashire, , England; Mary H Ballard; daur; single; aged 26; Governess; born Pendleton, Lancashire
Francis A Ballard; daur; siingle; aged 19; student; born Heaton Moor, Lancashire
Thomas M Ballard; son; single; aged 17; junior clerk; born Heaton Moor, Lancashire
Janet Ballard; niece; single; aged 29; Lady help; born Salford, Lancashire
Walter Taylor; boarder; single; aged 30; civil engineer; born Fulham, Middlesex.²

     Her married name was Grimley. Amy Matilda Ballard was born in 1862 at Hastings, Sussex, , England.¹ She was the daughter of George Henry Ballard. Amy Matilda Ballard appeared on the census of 5 April 1891 at 30 Bouverie Square, Folkstone, Kent, , England; Amy Matilda; visitor; single; aged 29; born Hastings, Sussex.²

She died circa 1912.

     William E Ballard was born in 1862 at Chatham, Kent, , England.¹ He was the son of Charles Ballard.¹ William E Ballard died before 1881.

     Amy J Ballard was born in 1862 at Winchester, Hampshire, , England.¹ She was the daughter of Henry Thomas Ballard.¹ Amy J Ballard appeared on the census of 4 April 1881 at Guys Hospital, St Thomas Street, Southwark, Surrey, , England; Amy Ballard; patient; single; aged 18; Housemaid Domestic Servant; born Winchester, Hampshire.²

     George Ballard was born in 1862 at Isle of Wight, Hampshire, , England.¹ He was the son of William Ballard.¹ George Ballard appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at The Verne Citadel, Portland, Dorset, , England; George Ballard; single; aged 19; Private in the Army; born Sandown, Hampshire.²

     Nellie Ballard was born in 1862 at Hawkhurst, Kent, , England.¹ She was the daughter of Henry George Ballard.¹

     James Ballard was born in 1862 at Birmingham, Warwickshire, , England.¹ He was the son of Samuel Ballard.¹

     Roland H Ballard was born in 1862 at Isle of Wight, Hampshire, , England.¹ He was the son of Charles Ballard.¹

     Henry Ballard was born in 1862 at London, Surrey, , England.¹ He was the son of Edward Ballard.¹

     Emily Ballard was born in 1862 at Birmingham, Warwickshire, , England.¹ She was the daughter of George Ballard.¹

     Sidney R Pockley was born in 1862 at Southampton, Hampshire, , England.¹ He was the son of Eliza Ballard.¹ Sidney R Pockley appeared on the census of 2 April 1871 in the household of Eliza Ballard at Greenhill Terrace, Romsey, Hampshire, , England; Eliza Pockley; wife; married; aged 32; wife of chief officer P & O services absent; born Southampton, Hampshire
Walter H Pockley; son; aged 10; scholar; born Southampton, Hampshire
Sidney R Pockley; son; aged 8; scholar; born Southampton, Hampshire
Emma Ballard; visitor; single; aged 20; no occupation; born Southampton, Hampshire
+ 1 servant.²

     Emily Ballard was born on 12 January 1862 at Leicester, Leicestershire, , England.^1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Ballard. Emily Ballard was baptized on 9 November 1863 at Leicester, Leicestershire, , England.²

     Thomas Ballard was born on 29 January 1862 at Old Church, St Pancras, Middlesex, , England; and baptised 1 Nov 1869. Son of Thomas Ballard & Eleanor Mary.^1,2 He was the son of Thomas Ballard.¹

     Albert Henry Ballard was born in March 1862 at Thatcham, Berkshire, , England.^1,2 He was the son of Charles Ballard.¹ Albert Henry Ballard appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at 23 Seagrave Road, London, Middlesex, , England; Henry Ballard; lodger; single; aged 19; Coach Body Maker; born Thatcham, Berkshire.³

     Susan Ballard was born in March 1862 at Droxford, Hampshire, , England.^2,3 She was the daughter of George Ballard.¹ Susan Ballard appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at Studwell Lodge, Droxford, Hampshire, , England; Susan Ballard; servant; single; aged 19; Housemaid Domes Serv; born Droxford, Hampshire.⁴

     Phoebe Julia Ballard was born in March 1862 at Thatcham, Berkshire, , England.² She was the daughter of John Ballard. Phoebe Julia Ballard appeared on the census of 2 April 1871 in the household of John Ballard at Thatcham, Berkshire, , England; Jno Ballard; head; widower; aged 54; Carriage Body Maker; born Thatcham, Berkshire
Hy Thm Ballard; son; aged <15>; Carriage Body Maker; born Thatcham, Berkshire
George Ballard; son; aged <13>; scholar; born Thatcham, Berkshire
Saml Jas Ballard; son; aged 12; scholar; born Thatcham, Berkshire
Elizabeth A Ballard; daur; aged 10; scholar; born Thatcham, Berkshire
Phoebe Julia Ballard; daur; aged 9; scholar; born Thatcham, Berkshire
Sarah Ann Ballard; daur; aged 7; scholar; born Thatcham, Berkshire.³ Phoebe Julia Ballard appeared on the census of 4 April 1881 at 4 Pleasant Place, Newbury, Berkshire, , England; Amos Fowler; head; married; aged 35; machinist threshing; born Eastbury, Berkshire
Susan Fowler; wife; married; aged 34; born Thatcham, Berkshire
Edith Fowler; daur; aged 6; scholar; born Newbury, Berkshire
Sidney Fowler; son; gaed 1; born Newbury, Berkshire
Julia Ballard; sister; single; aged 19; Dressmaker; born Thatcham, Berkshire.⁴

     Alfred Ballard was born in March 1862 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, , England.^2,3 He was the son of George Ballard.¹ Alfred Ballard was baptized on 20 June 1869 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, , England.¹ He appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at Speen, Berkshire, , England; Alfred Ballard; lodger; single; aged 19; Butcher; born Whitchurch, Hampshire

In the house of James MacDonald.⁴

     George Ballard was born in March 1862 at Grafton, Oxfordshire, , England.^2,3 He was the son of Thomas Ballard.¹ George Ballard appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at Bowling Green Farm, Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire, , England; George Ballard; servant; single; aged 17; Farm Servt Indoor; born Grafton, Oxfordshire.⁴

     Henry Arthur Ballard was born in March 1862 at Clapham, Surrey, , England.^2,3 He appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at Foleejohn Park, Winkfield, Berkshire, , England; Henry Ballard; servant; single; aged 21; Footman Domestic; born Clapham, Surrey.⁴ He appeared on the census of 5 April 1891 at 26 Egerton Gardens, London, Middlesex, , England; Henry Ballard; servant; single; aged 28; Butler Domestic; born Clapham.⁵ He married Annie McLean on 28 August 1894 at London, Middlesex, , England.^1,6 Henry Arthur Ballard appeared on the census of 31 March 1901 at 55 Burnfoot Avenue, London, Middlesex, , England; Henry Ballard; boarder; married; aged 34; Valet (domestic); born Clapham.⁷

     Mary Ann Ballard was born in March 1862 at Bromham, Wiltshire, , England.^1,2 She was the daughter of William Ballard.¹ Mary Ann Ballard appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at 39 High Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, , England; Mary A Ballard; servant; single; aged 19; Gen Serv; born near Devizes, Wiltshire.³

     William Ballard was born in March 1862 at Wangford, Suffolk, , England.^1,2 He was the son of John Ballard. William Ballard appeared on the census of 31 March 1901 in the household of John Ballard at Norfolk Road, Wangford, Suffolk, , England; John Ballard; head; widower; aged 70; sawyer; born Laxfield, Suffolk
William Ballard; son; single; aged 39; well sinker; born Wangford, Suffolk
George Ballard; son; single; aged 22; Ordinary Agril Labourer; born Wangford, Suffolk.³

     Kate Hawkins Ballard was born in March 1862 at Ledbury, Herefordshire, , England; BALLARD, Kate; March Quarter 1862; Ledbury ; Volume: 6a Page: 443.^1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Hawkins Ballard and Elizabeth H. Holmes. Kate Hawkins Ballard appeared on the census of 2 April 1871 in the household of Thomas Hawkins Ballard and Elizabeth H. Holmes at National School, Ripple, Worcestershire, , England; Thomas H Ballard; head; married; aged 42; schoolmaster (national schol); born Powick, Worcestershire
Elizabeth H Ballard; wife; married; aged 32; schoolmistress; born Suckley, Worcestershire
Elizabeth H Ballard; daur; aged 15; scholar; born Ledbury, Herefordshire
Thomas J H Ballard; son; aged 11; scholar; born Ledbury, Herefordshire
Kate H Ballard; daur; aged 9; scholar; born Ledbury, Herefordshire
Fanny H Ballard; daur; aged 3; born Suckley, Worcestershire
Albert E H Ballard; son; aged 5 months; born Ripple, Worcestershire.³ Kate Hawkins Ballard appeared on the census of 4 April 1881 in the household of Thomas Hawkins Ballard and Elizabeth H. Holmes at Old Street, Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, , England; Thomas H Ballard; head; married; aged 52; Solicitors Clerk; born Powick, Worcestershire
Elizabeth H Ballard; wife; married; aged 42; born Suckley, Worcestershire
Thomas J H Ballard; son; single; aged 21; Solicitor's Clerk; born Ledbury, Herefordshire
Elizabeth H Ballard; daur; single; aged 24; born Ledbury, Herefordshire
Kate H Ballard; daur; single; aged 19; Draper's Assistant; born Ledbury, Herefordshire
Harry H Ballard; son; aged 15; scholar; born Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Fanny H Ballard; daur; aged 13; scholar; born Suckley, Worcestershire
Alfred E H Ballard; son; aged 11; scholar; born Ripple, Worcestershire
Annie H Ballard; daur; aged 8; scholar; born Ripple, Worcestershire
Margaret H Ballard; daur; scholar; aged 5; born Ripple, Worcestershire.¹ As of September 1884,her married name was Hart.⁴ Kate Hawkins Ballard married Charles H Hart in September 1884; Ballard, Kate Hawkins; September Quarter 1884; Birmingham; Volume: 6d Page: 258.^4,2 Kate Hawkins Ballard and Charles H Hart appeared on the census of 5 April 1891 at 24 Rutter Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, , England; Charles H Hart; head; married; aged 23; stonemason; born Hereford, Herefordshire
Kate H Hart; wife; married; aged 28; born Ledbury, Herefordshire
Henry C A Hart; son; aged 6; scholar; born Suckley, Worcestershire
Gertrude D Hart; daur; aged 4; born Worcester, Worcestershire
Elsie R Hart; daur; aged 2; born Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Harry H Ballard; brother-in-law; single; aged 25; Railway Goods Porter; born Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.⁴

     Sarah Jane Ballard was born in March 1862 at Thurcaston, Leicestershire, , England.^1,2 She was the daughter of Mary Ann Ballard.¹ Sarah Jane Ballard was baptized on 8 June 1862 at Thurcaston, Leicestershire, , England.¹

     William Charles Ballard was born in March 1862 at Weekley, Northamptonshire, , England.^1,2 He was the son of Christopher Joseph Ballard.¹ William Charles Ballard appeared on the census of 3 April 1881 at 3 Stannilands Yard, Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, , England; William Ballard; boarder; single; aged 19; Joiner Apprentice; born Wickley, Northmptonshire.³

     James Ballard was born in March 1862 at Liverpool, Lancashire, , England.^1,2 He was the son of John Ballard.¹ James Ballard appeared on the census of 4 April 1881 at S S Olinda, Bordeaux, , France; James Ballard; single; aged 20; A B Seaman; born Liverpool, Lancashire.³

     William Henry Ballard was born in March 1862 at Salford, Lancashire, , England.^1,2 He was the son of Edward Ballard.

     Harriet Ballard was born in March 1862 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, , England.^1,2 She was the daughter of Henry Ballard.¹ As of circa 1880,her married name was Hawkins.¹ As of 1889,her married name was Barlow.¹

     Elizabeth Harriet Ballard was born in March 1862 at Ewhurst, Sussex, , England.^1,2 She was the daughter of Edmund Ballard.¹ Elizabeth Harriet Ballard died in March 1879 at Ashford, Kent, , England.³

     George Ballard was born in March 1862 at Charney, Berkshire, , England; George Ballard; Mar Qtr 1862; Faringdon; Volume: 2c Page: 267.^1,2 He was the son of Thomas Ballard.¹

     Admiral George Alexander Ballard CB Ballard, George Alexander (1862-1948) Admiral
corresp and papers
National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section
Reference : MS80/200
NRA 20623 Nat Maritime Mus

memoirs
Royal Naval Museum
Reference : 1988/89
see Guide to the MS Collections of the Royal Naval Museum (1997).¹
He King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Joined RN 1875; sub-lieutenant HMS HECIA during operations off the coast of Suakim, including battle of Tamai 1884; Aide-de-camp to Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast, Burma 1885-1886; commanding HMS ISIS, Boxer Rebellion, China 1900; Director of Operations Div, Admiralty 1912-1914; World War I 1914-1918; Adm of Patrols on UK east coast 1914-1915; Adm commanding Malta 1916-1918; retired 1924

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).¹ He Ballard, George Alexander (1862-1948), naval officer, son of General John Archibald Ballard (1829-1880), and his wife, the daughter of Robert Scott-Moncrieff, was born at Bombay on 7 March 1862. After a few months at the well-known naval crammer, Dr Burney's academy, at Gosport, Hampshire, he entered the training ship Britannia in January 1875. He first went to sea in January 1877 in the ironclads Resistance and then Achilles, in the channel and Mediterranean, and was present at the forcing of the Dardanelles in February 1878. In September 1878 he joined the corvette Tourmaline, part of the ‘flying squadron’ which made a 21-month voyage round the world. He returned in July 1882 as an acting sub-lieutenant. He then trained as a torpedo specialist, and in August 1883 was appointed to the experimental torpedo boat depot ship Hecla, a converted merchant ship, which was presently dispatched with troops to the Red Sea, where Ballard, with many of his shipmates, was landed to campaign with the army in the Sudan. In March 1884 he was promoted lieutenant in the field. After returning to sea he served briefly in several ships in the Mediterranean before joining the gunboat Woodlark at Rangoon in May 1885, and serving up-country in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, where he became General Prendergast's naval aide-de-camp, and took part in the storming of Mandalay. Between 1887 and 1895 he had appointments at home, in the Mediterranean, and on the China station, and in October 1895 he received his first command, the destroyer Janus at Sheerness. From her he moved in May 1896 to the torpedo gunboat Renard, and in December 1897 was promoted commander. The following year he married Mary Frances, daughter of James Paterson of Whitelee, Selkirk; they had two sons and one daughter, and his wife survived him.

After service as commander of the cruiser Isis, Ballard joined the naval intelligence division in February 1902, and in December 1903 was promoted captain. In 1906 he attended the senior officers' war course at Portsmouth, from which he moved in June 1906 to command the large cruisers Terrible and Hampshire (August 1907), followed by the battleships Commonwealth (December 1909) and Britannia (December 1910), all four in home waters. In practice he spent five months from December 1906 ashore at Portsmouth presiding over a secret committee charged by Sir John Fisher with reviewing plans for amphibious landings against Germany—which it dismissed as impossible. Ballard was judged ‘a man of great intellectual power and character’ (Hankey, 1.33), ‘100% the ablest officer of his rank and standing now in the Service’ (Sir Charles Ottley, Esher MSS, quoted by Lambert, 265). Under Fisher he was used as an unofficial adviser, and when Winston Churchill took office in October 1911 he pressed for Ballard to be the next director of naval intelligence. He was considered too junior for this, but when the naval war staff was instituted in December Ballard became director of the operations division, where he remained until 1914. Rear-Admiral Troubridge, his new chief, did not take well to a subordinate with ‘more brains in his little finger than Troubridge has in his great woolly head’ (Major Grant-Duff of the imperial defence committee, Grant-Duff MSS, quoted by Lambert, 266), while Churchill likewise soon took against one who ruthlessly shot down his wilder schemes. Ballard's career was rescued by the approach of war. He was promoted commodore in May 1914 (rear-admiral in August) and admiral of patrols, commanding the defences of the east coast. As the Grand Fleet had now abandoned the southern North Sea, Ballard's flotillas were in the front line, and he was responsible for executing the strategy, based on submarines, minefields, and aircraft, that he himself had drawn up. His reputation may have suffered from the German raids of 1914 and 1916; certainly there was no vacancy in the naval war staff under Sir Henry Jackson for so clever and independent an officer, and he moved in September 1916 to the responsible but unglamorous position of admiral superintendent of Malta Dockyard. A vice-admiral in February 1919, he left Malta in September, and retired in June 1921. In March 1924 he became admiral on the retired list.

Ballard occupied his retirement in historical research, writing a substantial study, The Influence of the Sea on the Political History of Japan (1921), followed by Rulers of the Indian Ocean (1927). He also published a long series of illustrated articles in the Mariner's Mirror on the warships of the mid-Victorian navy, combining serious research, skilful draughtsmanship, and his own evocative memories. He died on 16 September 1948 at his home, Hill House, Downton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.

N. A. M. Rodger
Sources
The Times (18 Sept 1948), 4 · The Times (28 Sept 1948), 7 · WWW, 1941–50 · Boase, Mod. Eng. biog. · A. J. Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: the Royal Navy in the Fisher era, 1904–1919, 5 vols. (1961–70) · A. J. Marder, From the Dardanelles to Oran: studies of the Royal Navy in war and peace, 1915–1940 (1974) · S. W. Roskill, Naval policy between the wars, 2 vols. (1968–76) · Lord Hankey [M. Hankey], The supreme command, 1914–1918, 2 vols. (1961) · S. W. Roskill, Hankey, man of secrets, 3 vols. (1970–74) · Kelly, Handbk · N. A. Lambert, Sir John Fisher's naval revolution (1999)
Archives
NMM, corresp. and papers, MS 80/200 · Royal Navy Museum, Portsmouth, memoirs
Wealth at death
£7762 4s. 11d.: probate, 10 June 1949, CGPLA Eng. & Wales

Churchill (Winston Spencer). Lord Randolph Churchill, second edition, inscribed on the half-title 'To Vice Admiral Ballard from Winston S. Churchill 13 Nov. 1921', photogravure portrait, margins a little spotted, contemporary crushed brown half morocco, gilt spine (slightly faded), 1907 George Alexander Ballard joined Naval Intelligence in 1902, he has been documented as 'a man of great intellectual power and character'. When Churchill took office in October 1911 he pressed for Ballard to be the next Director of Naval Intelligence, but he was considered too junior for this post. Nevertheless he continued to work closely with Churchill.² He was born on 7 March 1862 at , India.¹ He was the son of Lieutenant-General John Archibald Ballard CB LLD RE.¹ Admiral George Alexander Ballard CB was educated circa 1870 at HMS Brittania, . He began military service in 1875.¹ Lieutenant-General John Archibald Ballard CB LLD RE received a bequest from Admiral George Alexander Ballard CB by which they received Share of the accumulated fund established by the will. from their will probated on 23 April 1880. He appeared on the census of 4 April 1881 at Royal Navy, ; 19Years U Midshipman Not Specified : V 'Tourmaline' 5636/38/2.³ He CB in 1913.¹ He ended military service in 1921; Retired list.¹ He was living in 1930 at Corsham, Wiltshire, , England.¹ He died on 16 September 1948 at age 86.¹ He was recorded on a Monumental Inscription on 16 September 1948 at Portbury, Somerset, , England; Admiral Geo. BALLARD b 7 Mar 1862 d 15 Sept 1948 son of Lieut. Gen. J A BALLARD

Richard his grandson, b 17 Apr 1929, accidentally killed on service Hong Kong 27 Mar 1949.