Kenneth A. Ballhatchet (29 November 1922 – 13 March 1995) was a British historian and university professor.
[1] 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.
[1] 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.
[1] 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.