Peter Ball (barrister)

Sir Peter Ball (died 1680) was an English landowner, barrister, and courtier who sat in the House of Commons in 1626, 1628/1629, and briefly in 1640.

A royalist during the English Civil Wars, he was attorney general to Queen Henrietta Maria.

[1] Ball's father bought the Mamhead estate from the adventurer Sir Peter Carew (1514–1575).

After inheriting the property, Ball began to build a new Mamhead House, replacing an older one.

They had seventeen children including William the astronomer, Peter the physician[4] and Robert Ball, the MP.