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AFBorchert (talk | contribs) birth year fixed as the family records are wrong: TCD alumni record: 1771 aged 17; monument in St. Peter's: MORTEM OBIIT A.D. MDCCCXIII AETATIS LIX; alumni reference fixed; references moved to reflist |
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[[File:Drogheda St. Peter's Church of Ireland John Ball Monument by John Smyth Detail Bust 2022 08 26.jpg|thumb|upright|Bust sculpted by [[John Smyth (sculptor)|John Smyth]] in 1837<ref name="Larkin" />]]
'''John Ball''' ({{c.}} 1754<ref name="Burtchaell" /><ref name="Woods" /><ref>Monument in St. Peter's Church Drogheda: "MORTEM OBIIT A.D. MDCCCXIII AETATIS LIX", see [[:File:Drogheda St. Peter's Church of Ireland John Ball Monument by John Smyth 2022 08 26.jpg]]</ref> – 24 August 1813) was an Irish barrister and politician.<ref name="Wright" />
Ball was educated at [[Trinity College, Dublin]].<ref name="Burtchaell" /> From 1796 to 1800, he was [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Drogheda (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Drogheda]] in the [[Irish House of Commons]].<ref>{{cite book | last = O'Hart | first = John | title = The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland | publisher = Heritage Books | volume = II | isbn = 978-0-7884-1927-0 | date = 2021}}</ref> Ball pleaded without success against the [[Acts of Union 1800|union]] in parliament and was seen as one of the most able lawyers of his day.<ref name="Stubbs" />
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==References==
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<ref name="Burtchaell">{{cite book |editor1=[[George Dames Burtchaell]] |editor2=[[Thomas Ulick Sadleir]] |title=Alumni Dublinenses: A register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)| year=1935 |publisher=Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd. |page=35
<ref name="Larkin">{{cite encyclopedia |first=Rita |last=Larkin |title=Smyth, John |encyclopedia=Sculpture 1600–2000 |series=Art and Architecture of Ireland |volume=III |publisher=Yale University Press |editor-first=Paula |editor-last=Murphy |isbn=978-0-300-17921-7 |pages=324–325}}</ref>
<ref name="Wright">{{cite book |first=William Ball |last=Wright |title=Ball Family Records |location=York |date=1908 |page=98 |url=https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G000876.pdf |publisher=none |access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref>▼
▲<ref name="Burtchaell">{{cite book |editor1=[[George Dames Burtchaell]] |editor2=[[Thomas Ulick Sadleir]] |title=Alumni Dublinenses: A register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)| year=1935 |publisher=Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd. |page=35 |doi=10.48495/70795b624}}</ref>
<ref name="Stubbs">{{cite journal |author=Major-General Stubbs |title=Louth Members of the Irish Parliament |journal=Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society |volume=4 |number=4 |date=1919 |pages=375–86 | jstor=27729240}}</ref>
<ref name="Woods">{{cite encyclopedia |first=C. J. |last=Woods |title=Ball, John |encyclopedia=Ireland's national biographical dictionary |year=2009 |doi=10.3318/dib.000345.v1}}</ref>
▲<ref name="Wright">{{cite book |first=William Ball |last=Wright |title=Ball Family Records |location=York |date=1908 |page=98 |url=https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G000876.pdf |publisher=none |access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref>
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