John Ball
1818 – 1889
Irish

Botanist and founder of the Alpine Club in London. His Alpine Guide further developed the 19th century vogue for mountains. He also served in the British cabinet, traveled extensively, and loved and wrote about botany.

Contemporaries
1865–1939William Yeats
1854–1900Oscar Wilde
1769–1852Arthur Wellesley Wellington
1871–1909J. M. Synge
1847–1912Bram Stoker
1825–1901James Stephens
1856–1950George Bernard Shaw
1874–1922Sir Ernest Shackleton
1867–1935George Russell
1787–1841Catherine McAuley
1754–1834Richard Martin
1879–1920Terence MacSwiney
1838–1903William Lecky
1882–1941James Joyce
1865–1922Alfred Harmsworth
1745–1829Lady Eleanor Butler
1861–1927J. B. Bury
1787–1848John Burke
1789–1849Marguerite Blessington
fl. c. 1842–c. 1903Helen Blackburn
1863–1951Daisy May Bates
1845–1905Thomas Barnardo
1818–1895Cecil Frances Alexander