Samuel Ball

(1781 c.-1874)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ball, Samuel, 1781?-1874 LBT ID: SaBall1874 VIAF ID: 18019526 LOC ID: nr88010187	B/BAP: 1781 DIED: 1874-03
SOURCES: Annual Register (1874) 146; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated with Charles Lamb at Christ's Hospital, he was an authority on Chinese Tea employed by the East India Company. He was a member of the Athenaeum Club.
REFERENCES TO Samuel Ball: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 10 May 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 5 December 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 28 May 1819 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [1 December 1824] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 65 Letters: 1806 Letters: 1808 Letters: 1819 Letters: 1824 Appendix II Found 1: ¶ 6