William George Ridland Ball
William George Ridland Ball
1882 Born in Stoke Damerel,[1] son of William Ball.
1911 William George Redland Ball 28, manager of shipbreaking company, was a boarder in Charlton[2]
1916 A Sec. Lieut. Devon R. G. A., married Mary Hooper Mackenzie in Greenwich; his father was a retired civil servant.
1924 'Mr. W. G. Ridland Ball, who has elected Mayor of Greenwich, is an old boy, being a son of the late Mr. William H. Bail, of Waterloo House, Stoke, and great-nephew of Mr. P. C. Goodman, of Plymouth. r. Ball went reside in London in 1904, and became the manager of a shipbuilding firm. He is now principal of Messrs. Wood and Ball, engineers, and managing director the Rosyth Shipbreaking Co. During the war served with R.G.A., and was second command the 21st Siege Battery in Palatine and France being wounded. He was elected member of Greenwich Borough Council id 1922, and is the leader the Liberal that body.'[3]
1939 Managing Director - Castle's Shipbreaking Co Ltd, lived in Plympton St Mary with Isabella Ball[4]
1974 Died in Plymouth[5]