inventor of the black cravat
Edward, son of David Ball & Sarah, was baptised on 10 June 1798 in Lambourne, Essex, England.[1]
He inherited a vast sum of money (£41,000 a year - £3 million) from his step-grandfather, Admiral Edward Hughes (but had to take his surname), who had married his grandmother, Mrs Ruth Ball. Her eldest son was Captain Henry Ball R.N. and her second son David Ball was the father of "Golden Ball".
Edward married dancer Maria Mercandotti on 23 March 1823 in Banff, Banffshire, Scotland.[2] The couple were divorced in 1839.
"Golden Ball" had spent lavishly and gambled away his entire fortune. He fled to France, and never returned to England.
with second wife, actress Eliza Breugnot Monborne:
Edward Seymour, Adeline Eleanor, Sydney Matilda
with Anne Henriette de Dauvet:
Edward Edmund Hughes Ball Hughes, Kate Henrietta Edwardine Hughes Ball Hughes (who became Comtesse de Roydeville-Pringa upon her marriage)
Hughes died in 1863 at the age of 65, leaving behind an estate worth a little over £30,000 or about £3 million today.
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