Thomas Ball (archdeacon of Chichester)
The Venerable Thomas Ball (c. 1697 – 19 July 1770) was the son of Lawrence Ball, of Eccleston, Lancashire, and a Church of England clergyman.
Family
Thomas Ball married Margaret Mill (1712–1783) in Greatham, Sussex, on 8 July 1732 when he was 36 years old, they had at least four children, one of which, Ann Ball born 1738, married Charles Harward (1723–1802) in 1763, who was his successor as Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1770. Another daughter Elizabeth Ball (1750–1797) married William Hayley (1745–1820) the poet, whose great uncle was William Haley the Dean of Chichester Cathedral from 1699 to 1715.
Education
Ball matriculated in 1715 at age 18. He then went on to study at
Career
Ball was ordained in 1723 and became vicar of Boxgrove, a village near Chichester, the same year. This was a living he held for 30 years.[1][2] While at Boxgrove he took a year out to be a schoolmaster in Carolina between 1725 and 1726.[3] He was
The career of Thomas Ball reveals a close linking of the political and ecclesiastical life of Sussex in the middle of the 18th century.
Thomas Ball died on 19 July 1770 and is buried in Chichester Cathedral.[1]
Notes
References
- Fothergill, Gerald (1904). A List of Emigrant Ministers to America 1690-1811. London: Elliot Stock.
- Hennessy, George (1900). Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists: Clergy Succession from the earliest time to the year 1900. London: St Peters Press.
- Hobbs, Mary, ed. (1994). Chichester Cathedral an Historical Survey. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-924-3.
- Venn, J; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols). Cambridge University Press.