| Kenneth A. Ballhatchet | |
| Birth Date: | 29 November 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Bristol, England |
| Occupation: | University Professor |
| Nationality: | British |
Kenneth A. Ballhatchet (29 November 1922 – 13 March 1995) was a British historian and university professor.
He was born in Bristol on 29 November 1922.[1]
He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol.[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.[2]
He died on 13 March 1995.[1] After his death a Festschrift was published in his honour by Peter Robb.[1]
His notable books include:[3] [4]