BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. b. Edinburgh 24 April 1825; in the Hudson Bay Company’s service 1841–47; author of Hudson’s Bay or every day life in the wilds of North America 1848, 3 ed. 1859; Coral island, a tale of the Pacific ocean 1857; Deep down, a tale of the Cornish mines 1868, and many other tales. d. 1871.
BALLANTYNE, Thomas. b. Paisley 1806, a weaver there; edited Bolton Free Press; edited Manchester Guardian; printer, publisher and one of the 4 original proprietors of Manchester Examiner; editor of Liverpool Journal and Liverpool Mercury; edited the Leader in London; started the Statesman, edited it till its close; edited St. James’s Chronicle; author of Passages selected from writings of T. Carlyle 1855; Essays in mosaic 1870. d. Tufnell park, Holloway 30 Aug. 1871.
BALLARD, Edward George (only child of Edward Bollard, alderman of Salisbury who d. 6 March 1827). b. Salisbury 29 April 1791; clerk in the Stamp and Excise offices London 1809–17; wrote most of the poetry and critiques for the Weekly Review; author of A new series of original poems [anon.] 1825; Microscopic amusements 1829; wrote part of a continuation of Strype’s Ecclesiastical annals in The Surplice weekly paper 1848. d. Compton terrace, Islington 14 Feb. 1860.
BALLARD, John Archibald. b. 1829; 2 lieut. Bombay Engineers 8 Dec. 1848 and lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to 31 Dec. 1878; lieut. col. Turkish army 1854; served in campaigns on the Danube 1854–55, in Crimea 1855, and in Mingrelia 1855–56; assistant quartermaster general of Persian expeditionary force 1856–57, and of Rajpootana field force and Malwa division in Indian mutiny 1858–59; C.B. 10 May 1856; mint master Bombay 1862–78; general 31 Dec. 1878. d. Pass of Thermopylæ near Livadia Greece 1 April 1880.
BALLARD, Thomas. b. Mayfair London; studied at St. George’s hospital; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. society 1849; author of New and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants and mothers 1860; On the convulsive diseases of infants 1863; An enquiry into constitutional syphilis in the infant 1874. d. 10 Southwick place, Hyde park 11 Sep. 1874 aged 56.
BALLINGALL, David James. Midshipman R.N.; served at Copenhagen 1801; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 July 1803; col. commandant 19 Nov. 1851 to 10 Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay. d. Southsea 31 March 1854.
BALLINGALL, Sir George (son of Rev. Robert Ballingall, minister of Forglen, Banffshire). b. in the manse of Forglen 2 May 1780; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1803, M.R.C.S. Edin. 15 Aug. 1820; assistant surgeon 1 foot 10 July 1806; surgeon of 33 foot 1815–18 when placed on h.p., retired 1831; professor of military surgery in Univ. of Edin. 18 Jany. 1823 to death; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; F.R.S.; author of Introductory lectures to a course of military surgery 1830; Outlines of military surgery, 5 ed. 1855. d. Altamont near Blairgowrie 4 Dec. 1855.
BALNEAVIS, Henry. Ensign 16 foot 3 Jany. 1797; captain 27 foot 1805–24 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 65 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; C.M.G. 17 July 1833; K.H. 1836. d. Malta 17 July 1857 aged 77.
BALVAIRD, William. Major Rifle brigade 1814–18; major 99 foot 1824–26, retired from the army 27 Aug. 1841; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1853.
BALY, William. b. Lynn, Norfolk 1814; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1834; studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.D. Berlin 1836; practised in London 1836; L.R.C.P. 1841, F.R.C.P. 1846, a censor 1858; phys. to Milbank penitentiary 1841–60; lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–54, assistant phys. there 1854 and lecturer on medicine 1855; Gulstonian lecturer Feb. 1847; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 18 April 1859; member of general council of medical education and registration 1 Aug. 1860 to death; author with W. S. Kirke of Advances in physiology of motion 1848, and with W. G. Gull of Reports on epidemic cholera 1854; killed in the train on the South Western railway about 7 miles from London at the junction with the Epsom line 28 Jany. 1861. Medical Critic ii, 334–40 (1861); I.L.N. xxxviii, 111, 122 (1861), portrait.