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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|09|16|1862|03|07}}<br />
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| birth_place =[[Mumbai|Bombay]], [[India]]<br />
| death_place =Hill House, Downton, near [[Salisbury]], [[Wiltshire]]<br />
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| serviceyears =1875–1921<br />
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[[Admiral (United Kingdom)|Admiral]] '''George Alexander Ballard''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB}} (7 March 1862 – 16 September 1948) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] and a historian.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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He joined the [[Royal Navy]] as a [[sub-lieutenant]], was promoted [[Lieutenant (Royal Navy)|lieutenant]] 15 March 1884,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25329 |date=18 March 1884 |page=1304 }}</ref> and [[Commander (Royal Navy)|commander]] 31 December 1897.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26924 |date=31 December 1897 |page=7854 }}</ref> In February 1902 he was ordered to six months' service at the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=15 February 1902 |page=12 |issue=36692}}</ref> He was further promoted [[Captain (Royal Navy)|captain]] 31 December 1903.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27632 |date=1 January 1904 |page=25 }}</ref> In May 1913, Ballard was appointed a [[naval aide-de-camp]] to [[George V|King George V]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28718 |date=13 May 1913 |page=3438 }}</ref> and in the [[1913 Birthday Honours|King´s Birthday Honours]] 3 June 1913 he was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28724 |date=30 May 1913 |page=3903 }}</ref> The following year he was appointed [[Rear admiral (Royal Navy)|rear admiral]] 27 August 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28881 |date=28 August 1914 |page=6794 }}</ref> He became Admiral Superintendent [[Malta Dockyard]] in September 1916.<ref>Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 65.</ref><br />
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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.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32919 |date=18 March 1924 |page=2323 }}</ref><br />
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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.<br />
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==Archives==<br />
* Correspondence and papers, MS 80/200 NRA 20623; National Maritime Museum<br />
* Memoirs, 1988/89; Royal Navy Museum, Portsmouth<br />
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==Publications==<br />
* ''The Influence of the Sea on the Political History of Japan'' (John Murray, London, 1921)<br />
* ''America and the Atlantic'' (Duckworth & Co, London, 1923)<br />
* ''Rulers of the Indian Ocean'' (Duckworth & Co, London, 1927)<br />
* ''The Black Battlefleet'' (Nautical Publications Company, 1980)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* "Bombay Almanac"<br />
* ''[[The Times]]'' (18 Sept 1948), 4<br />
* ''The Times'' (28 Sept 1948), 7<br />
* A. J. Marder, ''From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904–1919'', 5 vols. (1961–70)<br />
* S. W. Roskill, ''Hankey, Man of Secrets'', 3 vols. (1970–74)<br />
* N. A. Lambert, ''Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution'' (1999)<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/George_Alexander_Ballard The Dreadnought Project – George Alexander Ballard]<br />
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