Nicholas Ball (Alderman)
Nicholas Ball served as Lord Mayor of Dublin, and MP for Dublin in the Irish Parliament, from a wealthy Irish Merchant family, his father Bartholomew Ball and brother Walter Ball were also mayors of Dublin. Unlike his brother who converted to Anglicanism, Nicholas remained a Catholic like his martyred mother Blessed Margaret Ball. He married Begnet Luttrell and they had children Margaret, Jane and Bartholomew, The lived near Kells, Co. Meath.[1] Nicholas served as Master of the Merchants Guild, Sheriff of Dublin, an Alderman of Dublin from 1574 and Mayor of Dublin from 1582-1583. In 1585 he was elected to serve in the Irish Parliament for Dublin.[2] He died in 1609 and is buried in St. Audoen's Church, Dublin.