Admiral

Admiral (United Kingdom)

Admiral is a senior rank of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, which equates to the NATO rank code OF-9, outranked only by the rank Admiral of the Fleet...

 George Alexander Ballard, CB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 (7 March 1862 – 16 September 1948) was an officer of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 and a historian. Ballard was the eldest son of General John Archibald Ballard

John Archibald Ballard

Lieutenant General John Archibald Ballard CB LLD RE was a British soldier. He was born in Portbury, Somerset, the second son of George Ballard, a Calcutta Merchant, and Jane Tod daughter of Alexander Tod and Charlote Bruere...

 (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.

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.

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)