John Thomas Ball

John Thomas Ball

John Thomas Ball QC (24 July 1815 – 17 March 1898) was an Irish barrister and politician in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, LLD 1844; barrister, 1840; Queen's Counsel, 1854; Vicar-General of the province of Armagh, 1862; Queen's Advocate in Ireland, 1865; Solicitor General for Ireland, 1868; Attorney General for Ireland, 1868 and 1874–1875. He became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1868.

He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Dublin University 1868–1875; Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1880.

Opposed Irish Church Act; assisted in framing future constitution of disestablished Church of Ireland; opposed Gladstone's first Irish Land Bill of 1870 and Irish University Bill of 1873. Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1875–1881.

His son, F Elrington Ball, was an author and legal historian.

References

*"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"


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