| Name |
(wife) Unknown, 11G Grandmother |
| Birth |
England |
| Death |
England |
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| Spouses |
| 1 |
Richard Ball D.D.  322, 11G Grandfather |
| Birth |
ca 1568/72, England322 |
| Death |
1631, England |
| Burial |
Great St Helen's, Bishopgate, London, England |
| Graduation |
1590, Magdalen College, Oxford, England |
| Grad Memo |
B.A. in 1590 |
| Graduation |
1594, Magdalen College, Oxford, England |
| Grad Memo |
M.A. in 1594 |
| Father |
Lawrence Ball (ca1538-) |
| Mother |
(wife) Unknown |
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| Notes |
Received two academic degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford. B.A. in 1590, M.A. in 1594. Later received the D.D. degree.
After receiving his education he was first Professor of Rhetoric of Gresham College.
He became Vicar of St. Helen's Church, Bishopgate, London, in 1606.
He received Armorial Bearing from the College of Heralds in 1613.322 |
| Research |
| During the Elizabethan age, there was an increased emphasis on genealogy in the heralds’ work as the gentry class rose in importance. Wealthy "new men" were eager to prove their gentility and be granted arms. Only persons of gentry class or higher could bear arms so anyone with arms was by definition gentle (the period Latin word for gentleman was "armigero" i.e. one who bears arms) so the heralds were effectively the gatekeepers to the gentry class.340 |
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