Albert Ball (politician)
Sir Albert Ball
Ball started life as a plumber, and in 1896 was living at 301 Lenton Boulevard (now Castle Boulevard), Nottingham. By the end of the nineteenth century he had risen to become an estate agent, with an office in Nottingham and had moved to Sedgley House, 43 Lenton Avenue, The Park, Nottingham. He was a councillor for the Castle ward of the city and later appointed a justice of the peace.
In 1908, he purchased Bulwell Hall with 575 acres and mineral rights for £35,000 (equivalent to £3,887,736) [3]. In 1914, he retired as a director of the Austin Motor Company. In April 1919 he purchased Papplewick Hall for £136,410 (equivalent to £6,669,129 in 2021) [3]. In 1936 he also bought Upton Hall.
He was created a
His portrait, by Noel Denholm Davis, is in the collection of Nottingham City Museums and Galleries.[4]
Family
He was the son of George Ball and Lois Attenborough. He married firstly Harriett Mary Page (1864–1931)[5] in 1886. The children from this marriage were:
- Hilda Ball (16 August 1887 – 27 August 1887)
- Lois Beatrice Ball (26 Feb 1892 – 7 Mar 1984) married in Nottingham on 2 March 1918 to Lieutenant G. Stafford Anderson[6]
- Albert Ball VC, DSO**, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917)
- Arthur Cyril Ball (1897 – 2 July 1958)
In 1933, he married Estelle Dorothy Bella Dannah. He died aged 83 in Bournemouth.[2]
References
- 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ a b "Obituary: Sir Albert Ball". The Times. 29 March 1946. p. 7.
- ^ a b UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ The Times, Saturday 13 June 1931
- ^ Flight International, Volume 10 (1919), Issue 1, page 264