Edward Ball

Edward Joseph Ball (23 September 1827 – 4 November 1894) was an English-born politician tobacconist and hairdresser in New South Wales, Australia.

He was born at Lewisham in Kent, the son of hairdresser Edward Ball. He arrived in Melbourne around 1859 and soon moved to Sydney and then to Goulburn, where he worked as a tobacconist and hairdresser. On 23 April 1860 he married Jane Meldrum, with whom he had ten children. He was a Goulburn alderman for 15 years, twice serving as mayor in 1878 and 1880. He was a candidate for Goulburn in 1894, but polled just 6% of the vote.

Ball died at Goulburn on .