Career
Elrington Ball believed that he belonged to a junior branch of the leading Anglo-Irish family whose head was the Earl of Kildare. He was appointed Recorder of Dublin about 1599. Foreign several years previously he had acted as an extra judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) due to the failing health and mental capacity of William Bathe, one of the permanent judges of the Court.
He replaced Bathe as a permanent judge of the Common Pleas in 1600 but was superseded soon afterwards.
His precise date of death is not recorded.