George Alexander Ballard

Admiral George Alexander Ballard, CB (7 March 1862 – 16 September 1948) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a historian. 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 was appointed naval aide-de-camp to the King in May 1913.^[1]

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)

References

• "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)