Nicholas Ball (Alderman)

Nicholas Ball served as Lord Mayor of Dublin, and MP for Dublin in the Irish Parliament, from a wealthy Irish Merchant family, his father Bartholomew Ball and brother Walter Ball were also mayors of Dublin. Unlike his brother who converted to Anglicanism, Nicholas remained a Catholic like his martyred mother Blessed Margaret Ball. He married Begnet Luttrell and they had children Margaret, Jane and Bartholomew, The lived near Kells, Co. Meath. Nicholas served as Master of the Merchants Guild, Sheriff of Dublin, an Alderman of Dublin from 1574 and Mayor of Dublin from 1582-1583. In 1585 he was elected to serve in the Irish Parliament for Dublin. He died in 1609 and is buried in St. Audoen's Church, Dublin.