F. Elrington Ball

Francis Elrington Ball (known as "F Elrington Ball") (1863 to 1928) was an Irish author and legal historian, best known for his work "The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921" (1926).

Life

A younger son of John Thomas Ball (1815 to 1898), the Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1875 to 1881, Ball was unsuccessful in seeking election (as a Unionist) to Parliament at a bye-election in South Dublin at an 1890 bye-election. His father had represented Dublin University in Parliament from 1868 to 1875.

Ball is, however, best known for his scholarship, particularly for his work on Swift, the local history of Dublin and on the history of the judiciary in Ireland from 1221 to 1921. The destruction in 1922, during the Irish Civil War, of the Four Courts and the public records and legal archives it contained (especially those of the Irish Public Records Office) made Ball's prior research into the history of the Irish judiciary up to 1921 particularly valuable to later scholars. The review published in the "Irish Law Times & Solicitors' Journal" described it as "a truly marvellous condensation of judicial history involving the exhaustive study of a long period, the earlier part of which was hitherto obscure." (Anon (1927) p 4)

The same review characterised Ball as "a writer of great care and accuracy, whose work is always characterised by minute and diligent research." (ibid).

Ball was also a governor of the Blue Coat School, Oxmantown, Dublin.

Works as author

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year = 1895
title = The parish of Taney : a history of Dundrum, near Dublin, and its neighbourhood
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location = Dublin
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year = 1903
title = Some notes on the Irish judiciary ... 1660-1685
publisher = Cork hist. and arch. soc.
location = Cork
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year = 1904
title = Some notes on the judges of Ireland, 1739
publisher = Roy. soc. of antiq. of Ireland
location = Dublin
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year = 1907
title = The vicinity of the International Exhibition Dublin: an historical sketch of the Pembroke township
publisher = Alex. Thom & Co
location = Dublin
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last = Ball
first = F Elrington
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year = 1995
title = A history of the county of Dublin : the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century (Part 1)
origyear = 1902
publisher = Greene's Bookshop
location = Dublin
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year = 1995
title = A history of the county of Dublin : the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century (Part 2)
origyear = 1903
publisher = Greene's Bookshop
location = Dublin
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title = A history of the county of Dublin : the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century (Part 3)
origyear = 1905
publisher = Greene's Bookshop
location = Dublin
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title = A history of the county of Dublin : the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century (Part 4)
origyear = 1906
publisher = Greene's Bookshop
location = Dublin
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title = A history of the county of Dublin : the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century (Part 5)
origyear = 1917
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title = A history of the county of Dublin : the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century (Part 6)
origyear = 1920
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year = 1926
title = The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 2 vols.
publisher = John Murray
location = London
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year = 1929
title = Swift's verse: an essay
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location = London
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Works as editor

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title = Essays relating to Ireland: biographical, historical and topographical; with a memoir of the author by Edward Dowden
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year = 1909
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first = Jonathan
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title = The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 1 (1690-1712)
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title = The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 2 (1713-1717)
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last = Butler
first = James (1st duke of Ormonde)
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editor = Caesar Litton Falkiner, F. Elrington Ball (eds)
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title = Calendar of the manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P., preserved at Kilkenny castle. New series Vol 6
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title = The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 1 (1718-1727)
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title = Calendar of the manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P., preserved at Kilkenny castle. New series Vol 7
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title = The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 4 (1727-1733)
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title = The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 5 (1733-1737)
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title = The correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 6 (1737-1744)
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last = Butler
first = James (2nd duke of Ormonde)
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title = Calendar of the manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P., preserved at Kilkenny castle. New series Vol 8
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year = 1920
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References

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title= Review: "The Judges in Ireland"
author = Anon
year = 1927
journal = I.L.T. & S.J.
volume = lxi
pages = 3–4
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last = Falkiner
first = Frederick Richard
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title = The foundation of the Hospital and Free school of King Charles II., Oxmantown Dublin : commonly called the Blue coat school: with notices of some of its governors, and of contemporary events in Dublin from the foundation, 1668 to 1840, when its government by the city ceased
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year = 1906
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location = Dublin
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quote = vi, 208, 211, 275.

External links

* [http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/ball1-6/balllist.htm A History of the County Dublin (6 vols)] at [http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/ Chapters of Dublin History]