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Henry Ward (other)
Henry Ward may refer to: * Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor (1828–1911), Irish representative peer * Henry Ward (architect) (1854–1927), English architect working in Hastings *Henry Ward (artist) (born 1971), British artist * Henry Ward (barrister) (died 1556), Member of Parliament for Norwich * Henry Ward (baseball), American baseball player *Henry Ward (basketball) (born 1952), American professional basketball player * Henry Ward (Kentucky politician) (1909–2002), Kentucky politician * Henry Ward (VC) (1823–1867), English recipient of the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny * Henry Alfred Ward (1849–1934), Canadian politician * Henry Arthur Ward (1889–1908), Birmingham whistle maker *Henry Augustus Ward (1834–1906), American naturalist * Henry Baldwin Ward (1865–1945), American zoologist *Henry Dana Ward (1797–1884), American abolitionist, anti-Masonic campaigner, and Millerite Adventist * Henry Galbraith Ward (1851–1933), American judge *Sir Henry George Ward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor
Henry William Crosbie Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor DL, JP (26 July 1828 – 23 February 1911), styled The Honourable from birth until 1881, was an Irish peer, Conservative politician and soldier. Background He was the second son of Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor and his wife Harriet Margaret Maxwell, second daughter of Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham. Ward was educated at Rugby School and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1881, he succeeded his older brother Edward as viscount. Career Ward entered the British Army in 1846 and served in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot. He fought in the Xhosa Wars and retired in 1854 as captain. In 1886, Ward was elected a representative peer to the House of Lords. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of County Down and represented the county also as Justice of the Peace. Family On 6 December 1854, he married the Irish entomologist, microscopist, and writer Mary King, a cousin of the astronomer and naturalist William Parsons, 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Augustus Ward
Henry Augustus Ward (March 9, 1834 – July 4, 1906) was an American naturalist and geologist. Biography Henry Augustus Ward was born in Rochester, New York on March 9, 1834. After attending Williams College and the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz, he traveled in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine, and studied at the Jardin des Plantes, the Sorbonne, and the School of Mines in Paris, and at the universities of Munich and Freiberg. Subsequently, he traveled in West Africa and the West Indies, making natural history collections. In 1860, he returned to Rochester where he was professor at the University of Rochester until 1865. In Rochester, he founded Ward's Natural Science, a pioneer enterprise of its kind, which collected specimens from all parts of the world, and then mounted and sold them to colleges and museums. He published: * ''Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri'' (1863) * ''Descriptions of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress (October 7 – 25, 1765), also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York, New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. It was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specialty stamped paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, newspapers, and dice for virtually all business in the colonies starting on November 1, 1765. The Congress consisted of delegates from nine of the eighteen British colonies in mainland North America. All of the attending delegations were from the Thirteen Colonies that eventually formed the United States. Although sentiment was strong in some of the other colonies to participate in the Congress, a number of royal governors took steps to prevent the colonial legislatures from me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ward (revolutionary)
Henry Ward may refer to: * Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor (1828–1911), Irish representative peer * Henry Ward (architect) (1854–1927), English architect working in Hastings *Henry Ward (artist) (born 1971), British artist * Henry Ward (barrister) (died 1556), Member of Parliament for Norwich * Henry Ward (baseball), American baseball player *Henry Ward (basketball) (born 1952), American professional basketball player * Henry Ward (Kentucky politician) (1909–2002), Kentucky politician * Henry Ward (VC) (1823–1867), English recipient of the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny * Henry Alfred Ward (1849–1934), Canadian politician * Henry Arthur Ward (1889–1908), Birmingham whistle maker *Henry Augustus Ward (1834–1906), American naturalist * Henry Baldwin Ward (1865–1945), American zoologist *Henry Dana Ward (1797–1884), American abolitionist, anti-Masonic campaigner, and Millerite Adventist * Henry Galbraith Ward (1851–1933), American judge *Sir Henry George Ward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Snowden Ward
Henry Snowden Ward (27 February 1865 – 7 December 1911) was an English photographer and author. Often in collaboration with his wife, the photographer Catharine Weed Barnes, he produced periodicals and textbooks about photography and produced illustrated works of literature. Early life Ward was born at Great Horton, Bradford, in 1865, eldest of five sons of William Ward, stuff manufacturer, and his wife Mary, only daughter of Henry Snowden, manufacturer. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and at Bradford Technical College, and entered in 1880 his father's business. With Herbert James Riley he established the periodical ''The Practical Naturalist'' (afterwards amalgamated with ''The Naturalist's World''), and founded the Practical Naturalists' Society. In 1885 he joined the printing and publishing firm Percy Lund & Co. of Bradford, for whom in 1890 he founded and edited the monthly periodical, the ''Practical Photographer''. He soon became a recognised authority on photog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry George Ward
Sir Henry George Ward GCMG (27 February 17972 August 1860) was an English diplomat, politician, and colonial administrator. Early life He was the son of Robert Ward (who in 1828 changed his surname by sign manual to Plumer Ward) and his first wife Catherine Julia Maling, daughter of Christopher Thompson Maling of West Herrington, County Durham; and the cousin of William Ward and William George Ward. He was born in London on 27 February 1797. Educated at Harrow School, and sent abroad to learn languages, he became in 1816 attaché to the British legation at Stockholm, under Sir Edward Thornton. He was transferred to The Hague in 1818, and to Madrid in 1819. He was appointed joint commissioner to Mexico in October 1823, and returned to England in 1824 and he married Emily Elizabeth Swinburne in London on 8 April. Emily was the daughter of Emma Bennett and Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet. The Wards went together to Mexico in 1825, as ''chargé d'affaires'', and two daughters wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Galbraith Ward
Henry Galbraith Ward (April 19, 1851 – August 24, 1933) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Second Circuit. Education and career Born on April 19, 1851, in New York City, New York, Ward received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree in 1870 from the University of Pennsylvania and read law in 1873. He entered private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1882 to 1884. He continued private practice in New York City starting in 1884. Federal judicial service Ward received a recess appointment from President Theodore Roosevelt on May 18, 1907, to a joint seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Second Circuit vacated by Judge William James Wallace. He was nominated to the same position by President Roosevelt on December 3, 1907. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dana Ward
Henry Dana Ward (January 13, 1797 - February 28, 1884) was an American preacher, abolitionist, anti-Masonic campaigner, and Millerite Adventist. Early life Ward was born in 1797 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to Thomas and Elizabeth Ward. He was one of nine children and was a grandson of the Revolutionary general Artemas Ward. He graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in 1816 and an A.M. in 1819. He was ordained as an Episcopal minister and served a parish in Virginia. Ward briefly joined the Freemasons in the 1820s. He later published a book renouncing the fraternity. Millerite Movement On November 15, 1833, Ward published an article in the Journal of Commerce entitled “The Falling Stars”. He stated that according to Matthew 24:29, the meteor storm that had appeared two days before was a sign that Christ was returning soon. Ward then studied biblical prophecies of the Second Coming and published his conclusions in an 1838 essay entitled Glad Tidings. William Miller wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Baldwin Ward
Henry Baldwin Ward (4 March 1865 – 30 November 1945) was an American zoologist and parasitologist. He was the founder and first president of The American Society of Parasitologists, and founder-editor of the ''Journal of Parasitology.'' Biography Ward was born on March 4, 1865, in Troy, New York. His father, Richard Halsted Ward, was a professor of biology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He got his bachelor's degree from Williams College of Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1885. He became an instructor of Science at Troy High School, where he served from 1886 to 1888. For two years, from 1888 to 1980, he participated in postgraduate study in European universities in cities like Göttingen, Freiburg, and Leipzig, and in biological facilities at Naples, Heligoland, and Villefranche-sur-Mer Villefranche-sur-Mer (, ; oc, Vilafranca de Mar ; it, Villafranca Marittima ) is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Arthur Ward
Henry Arthur Ward (1838–1903050 Samuel Auld – Part One, Escargots , ''TheWhistleGallery.com''.) was a whistle maker who made s of high quality, all rare and hard to find. He made whistles from 1876 to 1903. History and addresses H. A. Ward is one of the whistle makers that little is known about, and most of it is revealed by his designs and stamps, which testify to an innovative maker of high-quality whistles. All his whistles are rare and some were discovered only in the last year or two (2008). During 1889 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ward (architect)
Henry Ward ARIBA ( – 9 September 1927) was a British architect who designed many large public buildings in and around Hastings, East Sussex, some of which are listed buildings. Biography Henry Ward was born in Peckham, London, the son of tailor Edward John Ward and Susannah Ward. He arrived in Hastings in his late twenties after being articled at architectural practices in London and Paris. Ward briefly worked for and under the guidance of architect Walter Liberty Vernon and during the 50 years he worked in the town he designed buildings from his architectural practice at 8 Bank Buildings. Designs One of his first designs was the listed Gothic Revival Hastings Town Hall (1881) in Queens Road, which originally included the Police Court with cells. He also designed Bexhill Town Hall (1898). He was responsible for a number of churches in Hastings and around Sussex including the United Reformed Church in Robertson Street, Hastings, St Johns, Bexhill, St Stephens, Bexhill, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Alfred Ward
Henry Alfred Ward (August 20, 1849 – May 11, 1934) was a Canadian politician. Biography Born in Port Hope, Canada West, the only surviving son of the late George C. Ward, Registrar for Durham County, Ontario. He became a lawyer and was elected Mayor of Port Hope in 1885, 1893 and 1894. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for Durham East in an 1885 by-election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1887 but did not run in 1891. He ran again and was elected in 1900 and 1904 (for the riding of Durham). Ward was also active in the Canadian Militia, having enlisted with the 46th East Durham Battalion in 1867 and later retiring in 1909 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, having commanded the 46th Durham Regiment for 6 years. The Ward family of Port Hope, Ontario were of English descent. Henry Ward was a grandson of Captain Thomas Ward (1770–1861), who as born in London and came to Canada with Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1791. Captain Ward was one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
