Template:Infobox military person Admiral George Alexander Ballard Template:Post-nominals (7 March 1862 – 16 September 1948) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a historian.
Biography
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 joined the Royal Navy as a sub-lieutenant, was promoted lieutenant 15 March 1884,[1] and commander 31 December 1897.[2] In February 1902 he was ordered to six months' service at the Admiralty.[3] He was further promoted captain 31 December 1903.[4] In May 1913, Ballard was appointed a naval aide-de-camp to King George V,[5] and in the King´s Birthday Honours 3 June 1913 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.[6] The following year he was appointed rear admiral 27 August 1914.[7] He became Admiral Superintendent Malta Dockyard in September 1916.[8]
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.[9]
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
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Sources
- "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)
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