Kenneth A. Ballhatchet

Kenneth A. Ballhatchet was a British historian and university professor.

Biography

He was born in Bristol on 19 November 1922.
He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge, where after an interruption for wartime service he received a first in Part II of the historical tripos in 1947.
Ballhatchet was appointed lecturer in history at SOAS in 1948, leaving there to take up a readership at the University of Oxford. He returned to SOAS as Professor of the History of South Asian in 1965, retiring in 1988. He is also listed as a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica and the article on James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie was largely written by him.
He died on 13 March 1995. After his death a Festschrift was published in his honour by Peter Robb.