Thomas Humphry Ward (9 November 1845 – 6 May 1926) was an

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author and journalist, (usually writing as Humphry Ward) but best known as the husband of the author

Mary Augusta Ward Mary Augusta Ward (''née'' Arnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British literature, British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor and she became the founding Pres ...

, who wrote under the name

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Life

He was born in

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; his parents were Henry Ward, a cleric, and Jane Sandwith, daughter of Humphry Sandwith III, a surgeon there. He studied at Merchant Taylors' School and at

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, at which he became a

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in 1869 and a tutor in 1870. His compositions consisted of editorials which he submitted to ''

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''. Additionally, he edited a four-volume anthology, ''The English Poets'' (1880); ''Men of the Reign'' (1885); ''The Reign of Queen Victoria'' (1887); ''English Art in the Public Galleries of London'' (1888); and ''Men of the Time'', which ran to 12 editions. He wrote alone ''Humphry Sandwith, a Memoir'' (1884), and jointly ''The Oxford Spectator'' (1868) and ''Romney'' (1904). Elected a member of the

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in 1885, he also completed the centenary history of the club, a work started by

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before his death, and published in 1926, the year he himself died.

Family

Ward married Mary Augusta Arnold, who became a best-selling novelist of various genres including victorian values as Mrs Humphry Ward. Arnold was the daughter of a fellow Oxford academic,

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and the marriage connected Ward to the influential intellectual families of the Arnolds and the Huxleys. They lived at 17

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, which Ward leased in 1872. They had one son and two daughters, including the MP Arnold Ward and the author and activist

Janet Trevelyan Janet Penrose Trevelyan, CH (''née'' Ward; 6 November 1879 – 7 September 1956) was a British writer, social campaigner, and fundraiser. Biography Trevelyan was born Janet Penrose Ward in Oxford on 6 November 1879. She was the daughter of ar ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Thomas Humphry 1845 births 1926 deaths Writers from Kingston upon Hull Journalists from Kingston upon Hull People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford English book editors