b. 1825-07-13
d. 1897
Obtaining his army commission in 1843, Henry Maynard Ball spent a decade with his regiment in Australia, which included
commanding a detachment in the gold fields.1
As a retired army captain, he arrived in
Victoria in
May 1859 with a letter of introduction from Secretary of State
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. In June,
Douglas appointed him assistant gold commissioner and stipendiary magistrate for the district
of
Lytton.
2Four years later,
Douglas described him as
a shrewd careful magistrate, extremely methodical and correct in all his official
transactions.
3 He served in a similar capacity in the
Kootenays and
Quesnel.
4 In
1867 he was appointed a member of the
BC Legislative Council for
Cariboo West.
5 He retired in
1881 and spent the rest of his life in
San Francisco.
6
- 1. A. Watts, The Country Court of British Columbia, Advocate 27 (1969): 76-77.
- 2. Enclosure in Douglas to Newcastle, 18 February 1863, 3746, CO 60/15, p. 142.
- 3. Ibid.
- 4. . Watts, The Country Court of British Columbia, Advocate 27 (1969): 76-77.
- 5. G. P. V. Akrigg and Helen B. Akrigg, British Columbia Cronicle, 1847-1871: Gold & Colonists (Vancouver, B.C. : Discovery Press, 1977) p. 341.
- 6. . Watts, The Country Court of British Columbia, Advocate 27 (1969): 76-77.