Nicholas Ball (Irish lawyer)
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- This article is about the nineteenth-century Irish lawyer. For the British actor, see Nicholas Ball.
Nicholas Ball (died 1865) was a nineteenth-century Irish barrister. During Lord Melbourne's second government he served as Attorney-General for Ireland from 11 July 1838 to 23 February 1839.
He was then appointed as a judge of the Irish Court of Common Pleas, only the second Roman Catholic since the reign of James II to be appointed a judge in Ireland.
He lived for many years in No 75, St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
His son John Ball (naturalist) was a Liberal politician and a noted naturalist.
