Colin Robert Ballard

Brigadier-General Colin Robert Ballard,

Ballard was born in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland, the second son of General John Archibald Ballard (1829–1880), and his wife, Joanna, the daughter of Robert Scott-Moncrieff. Ballard spent his early life in Scotland and then in Kent before attending the United Services College, Westward Ho!, Devon in 1885.

Military career

According to the records of the

For two years after the First World War, Ballard was Officer Commanding No 2 District, Scottish Command, 1919–1920 and from 1920 to 1923 he held the post of President of the Allied Police Commission in Constantinople. He retired in 1923 and occupied his time in writing a number of books.

Ballard died in 1941 and was survived by his wife.

Family

Ballard married at Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, near Aberystwyth, on 7 October 1902, Lizzie Emelia A. Jones, daughter of General Jenkin Jones, Royal Engineers, of Dolau, Aberystwyth.^[5] They had no children.

Publications

• Russia in rule and misrule (John Murray, London, 1920)
• Napoleon, an outline (Duckworth and Co, London, 1924),
• Military genius of Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, London, 1926),
• The great Earl of Peterborough (Skeffington and Son, London, 1926);
• Kitchener (Faber and Faber, London, 1930),
• Smith-Dorrien (Constable and Co, London, 1931);

References

Further reading

• Cook, H. C. B. (ed.). "The Ballard letters : the Boer war writings of C.R. Ballard, part 1". Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library, 45:4 (1991), 145-58.
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• Who Was Who; Oxford University Press

• Works by Colin Robert Ballard at Faded Page (Canada)