Leonard Keith Ward (17 February 1879 – 30 September 1964) was an Australian

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and public servant. Ward was born in

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and was educated at Sydney and Brisbane Grammar Schools then the

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(

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., 1900;

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, 1903) where he was taught by

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. Ward worked at

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then at the

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, Kalgoorlie, from 1903. He played one

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match for

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in 1907–08. In 1919 he became secretary to the minister of mines. Ward was awarded the

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by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1930 and the

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by the

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in 1955.

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*Bernard O'Neil,
Ward, Leonard Keith (1879 - 1964)
, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, MUP, 2002, pp 489–490. * 1879 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Australian geologists Australian cricketers People educated at Brisbane Grammar School People educated at Sydney Grammar School Tasmania cricketers University of Sydney alumni People from Sydney {{Australia-cricket-bio-1870s-stub

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