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John Ward (1682-1755)
John Ward may refer to: Academia * John Ward (academic) (1679–1758), English Gresham Professor of Rhetoric * John Clive Ward (1924–2000), British physicist *John Manning Ward (1919–1990), Vice-Chancellor and history professor at the University of Sydney * John Mason Ward (1921–2014), British chemist *John Milton Ward IV (1917–2011), musicologist and Professor of Music at Harvard University *John Sebastian Marlowe Ward (1885–1949), British historian, Freemason and spiritualist * John William Ward (professor) (1922–1985), professor of English and history, and president of Amherst College Arts *John Ward (actor) (1704–1773), English actor *John Ward (American actor) (1923–1995), American actor *John Ward (composer) (1590–1638), English composer *John Ward (painter) (1798–1849), English marine artist *John Powell Ward (born 1937), English poet and academic * John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), American sculptor *John Stanton Ward (1917–2007), English painter * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (academic)
John Ward (1679?–1758) was an English teacher, supporter of learned societies, and biographer, remembered for his work on the Gresham College professors, of which he was one. Life Son of John Ward, a Baptist minister, by his wife, Constancy Rayner, he was born in London about 1679. For some years he was a clerk in the navy office, studying in spare time with the assistance of John Ker, who kept an academy, first in Highgate and afterwards in St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. He left the navy office in 1710, and opened a school in Tenter Alley, Moorfields, which he kept for many years. In 1712 he became one of the earliest members of a society composed principally of divines and lawyers, who met periodically in order to read discourses upon the civil law or upon the law of nature and nations. On 1 September 1720 he was chosen Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. Ward was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 30 November 1723. He was often elected a member of the council, and in 175 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (RAF Officer)
John Ward, MC, (15 December 1918 – 29 August 1995) was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force decorated twice for bravery. During World War II he was a member of a bomber crew shot down and taken POW but escaped and served as a BBC war correspondent behind enemy lines and fought with the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa (Home Army) participating in the Warsaw Uprising in occupied Poland being wounded in action against the SS controlled German forces. Early life Ward was born in December 1918 the Kings Norton district of Birmingham and grew up in the nearby suburb of Ward End where he was educated at the local council school. Royal Air Force service He joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1937 aged 18, as an Aircraftman 2nd class, to train for aircrew as a wireless operator/air gunner and by 1939 was serving with No. 226 Squadron RAF based at RAF Upper Heyford. On 2 September 1939 the squadron was part of the RAF contingent which moved to France ready for war. Under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (trade Unionist)
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward (21 November 1866 – 19 December 1934) was an English Liberal Party politician, trade union leader and soldier. Early life Ward was born at Oatlands, Weybridge, Surrey, the son of Robert and Caroline Ward. His father, a plasterer, died when he was three and he and his mother moved back to her home village of Appleshaw, near Andover, Hampshire. He had no real education and began working at a variety of odd jobs when he was seven years old. At the age of twelve he began work as a navvy on the Andover and Weyhill Railway, lodging with a man in Weyhill. He continued working as a navvy on jobs all over the country, including the Manchester Ship Canal, for the next seven years. It was only during this time that he learned to read and write. In 1885, he enlisted in the British Army and served in the Sudan campaign, where he worked on the uncompleted military railway from Suakin to Berber. He was now becoming increasingly interested in politics and in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (South Carolina Politician)
John Ward (February 14, 1767 – September 19, 1816) was the eleventh intendent (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina, serving one term from 1801 to 1802. Early life and education Ward was born on February 14, 1767, to Joshua Ward and Sarah McCall. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1787, married Mary Somersall in 1793, and then was elected intendant on September 14, 1801. Ward represented St. John's Parish (Colleton County) in the South Carolina State House during four General Assemblies, 1791–1797. Between 1798 and 1809, he represented the area in the South Carolina Senate The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the sa .... Ward died on September 19, 1816, and is buried in Trinity Churchyard, New York City. References Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (Minnesota Politician)
John Ward (born August 2, 1950) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represented District 10A, which included portions of Crow Wing County, Minnesota, Crow Wing County in the north central part of the state. He is also a retired teacher and coach. Early life, education, and career Ward graduated from Proctor High School in Proctor, Minnesota, Proctor, then went on to the University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Minnesota in Duluth, Minnesota, Duluth, receiving his Bachelor of Science, B.S. in Physical Education and Health, and also certification in coaching and driver's education, in 1973. He later returned to University of Minnesota Duluth, U.M.D., earning his Master of Arts, M.A. in Learning Disabilities in 1982. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, University of Wisconsin in Superior, Wisconsin, Superior in 1984, earning his E.B.D. teaching c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (loyalist)
John Ward (November 8, 1753 – August 5, 1846) was a businessman, militia officer and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented St. John County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the years 1809, 1816, and 1819. He was born in Peekskill, New York. Ward was probably the son of Edmund Ward and Elizabeth Ward and a descendant of Andrew Ward. He and his three brothers, Benjamin, Moses, and William, served with the Loyal American Regiment during the American Revolution, reaching the rank of lieutenant. in 1777 John Ward married Elizabeth Strang 1752–1831, fourth in descent from Daniel Strang and Charlotte Hubert who came from Havre, France in 1680. Their children were Caleb, John, William, Charles, Eliza, and Esther. He led a unit of provincial troops to Parrtown (later Saint John, New Brunswick) in 1783. Lt. Ward was in command of the escort that accompanied Maj. Andre when he went up the Hudson. The following year, Ward settled in an area that would come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (economist)
Christopher John William Ward (born 21 June 1942) is an economist, an opera administrator and trade union leader who served as General Secretary of the First Division Association from 1980 to 1988. He was educated at Oundle School, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA Lit Hum) and the University of East Anglia (DipEcon). Career In 1983, Ward stood to become General Secretary of the National and Local Government Officers' Association, but was narrowly defeated by John Daly.Patrick Wintour, "Deputy succeeds to top job", ''The Guardian'', 16 April 1983 * Bank of England, 1965–74 * General Secretary, Bank of England Staff Organisation, 1974–80 * General Secretary, First Division Association, 1980–88 * Head of development, Opera North, 1988–94 * Director of corporate affairs, West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1994–97 * Director of development, English National Opera 1997-2002 * Director of development, Crafts Council 2003-04 * Development advisor, Welsh National Opera 2003- He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (diplomat, Died 1890)
John Ward (1805–1890) was an English diplomat. Early life He was born on 28 August 1805 at East Cowes, where his father, John Ward, was collector of customs. His mother Martha was a sister of Thomas Arnold of Rugby. As a young man he associated with Arnold, Richard Whately and other liberals. In 1831 Ward edited with Arnold the short-lived weekly ''The Englishman's Register'', of which Arnold was the proprietor. He gave up the law, for which he had been trained, on his appointment in 1837 to an inspectorship of prisons. The following year, after some months as private secretary to John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, became through his influence secretary to the New Zealand Colonization Company. Diplomat Early in 1841 Ward was appointed British commissioner for the revision of the State tolls. In 1844 he was sent to Berlin as British commissioner for the settlement, through the arbitration of Frederick William IV of Prussia, of the so-called Portendic claims on France, arising out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (Conservative Politician)
Sir John Devereux Ward (8 March 1925 – 26 June 2010) was a British Conservative Party politician. Early life Trained as a civil and a structural engineer, he rose to become managing director of the construction firm Taylor Woodrow. Parliamentary career After being beaten at Portsmouth North in October 1974, Ward served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Poole from 1979, until his retirement in 1997. He was succeeded by Robert Syms. After the 1988 BDH fire and explosion in Poole, he called on the government to set up a public inquiry into the incident. From 1994 until the 1997 General Election, Ward was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, John Major Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997, and as Member of Parliament .... As such, he did not contribute in any debates d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward (banker)
Sir John Ward (c. 1650–1726), of Hookfield, Clay Hill, Epsom, Surrey and St Laurence Pountney, London, was a British merchant, banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1726. He was an original Governor of the Bank of England and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1718. Ward was the second son of John Ward, commissioner of customs, of Tanshelf, near Pontefract, Yorkshire and his wife Elizabeth Vincent, daughter of Thomas Vincent of Barnbrough, Yorkshire. His uncle was Sir Patience Ward, Lord Mayor of London in 1680. He married Mary Bucknell, the daughter of Sir William Bucknall of Oxhey Place, Hertfordshire on 17 April 1684. In 1700 he acquired Hookfield Park on Clay Hill Epsom, with the help of his father in law. Ward was one of the original directors of the Bank of England from 1694 to 1699, served as Deputy Governor from 1699 to 1701 and as Governor from 1701 to 1703. He then resumed his directorship from 1703 to his death. He was also a directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley And Ward
John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward (22 February 1725 – 10 October 1788) was a British peer and politician. He was the son of John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward, and his first wife Anna Maria (née Bourchier) and educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Marlborough in 1754, a seat he held until 1761, and then represented Worcestershire until 1774. The latter year he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and entered the House of Lords. Ward married Mary, daughter of Gamaliel Fair, gardener and seeds-man, who died on 17 December 1758, aged 69. Ward died in October 1788, aged 63. As he had no sons he was succeeded in the viscountcy by his half-brother William. A daughter He had a natural daughter Anna Maria Ward (1778–1837), by his Viscountess (when she was still Mrs. Mary Baker, whom he later married). Lord Dudley in his will made an ample provision for the girl and appointed his widow, who died in 1810, and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley And Ward
John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (6 March 1704 – 6 May 1774), known as John Ward until 1740 and as the 6th Baron Ward from 1740 to 1763, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Life Ward was the son of William Ward and the grandson of the Hon. William Ward (d. 1714), second son of Humble Ward, 1st Baron Ward. His mother was Mary, daughter of the Hon. John Grey, younger son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford. He inherited the Willingsworth estate and the rest of the manor of Sedgley on the death of his father in 1720, and the entailed portion of the Dudley estates on the death of his cousin William Ward, 5th Baron Ward in 1740. He was returned to Parliament for Newcastle under Lyme in 1727, a seat he held until 1734. In 1740 he succeeded his second cousin as the sixth Baron Ward and entered the House of Lords. He was further honoured in 1763 when he was created 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward, of Dudley in the County of Worcester. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
