John Ball
1818–89
Irish glaciologist and politician. Trained as a barrister but never practised. Assistant under-secretary of state for the colonies, 1855–7. First president of the Alpine Club, 1858–60. Travelled with Joseph Dalton Hooker in Morocco in 1871. FRS 1868.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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