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WARD, JEREMY, brother of Thomas Watson Ward (qv); bapt. 20 Jun 1763; adm. 17 Jan 1774; KS (aged 14) 1778; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1779; Lieut., 3rd Native Infantry 6 Aug 1781; Capt., 4th Native Infantry 8 Jan 1796; Maj., 7th Native Infantry 3 Jul 1802; Commandant, Provincial Corps of Tiers; ret. 14 Jan 1805; d. 10 Feb 1818.

WARD, ISAAC, of Kent; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1567, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1572; BA sup. 15 Jan 1570/1.

WARD, HERBERT GEORGE, second son of David Ward, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor, and Sarah W. --- (IGI); b. 10 Sep 1865; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (G); left Aug 1883; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 22 Jun 1887; South-Eastern Circuit; Secretary, Hunstanton Golf Club; d. from the result of an accident at Hunstanton, Norfolk 15 Feb 1910.

WARD, HENRY; b.; adm. 2 Apr 1777; left Aug 1785.

WARD, SIR HENRY GEORGE, only son of Robert Ward (afterwards Plumer-Ward) MP, Clerk of the Ordnance, Gilston Park, Herts., barrister, politician and novelist, and his first wife Catherine Julia, dau. of Christopher Thompson Maling, West Herrington, co. Durham; b. 27 Feb 1797; adm. 14 Jun 1808; KS (aged 13) 1810; left 1810; went to Harrow Sch.; attaché, British Legation, Stockholm 1816, The Hague 1818, Madrid 1819; Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico Oct 1823-7; MP (Whig) St. Albans 1832-7, Sheffield 1837- May 1849; Secretary to the Admiralty 1846 – May 1849; High Commissioner, Ionian Islands May 1849 – Apr 1855; Governor of Ceylon May 1855 – Jun 1860; Governor of Madras from Jun 1860; GCMG 1849; author, Mexico in 1825-7; m. 8 Apr 1824 Emily Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Edward Swinburne, Bart.; d. from cholera at Madras, India 2 Aug 1860.

WARD, HENRY CONSTANTINE EVELYN, son of Sir Henry George Ward (qv); b. 16 Apr 1837; adm. 18 Jan 1849; left Whitsun 1849; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1855; Ensign, 20 Apr 1855; 5th Native Infantry 6 Aug 1855; Lieut., 23 Nov 1856; Bengal Staff Corps 18 Feb 1861; Capt., 20 Apr 1867; Maj., 20 Apr 1875; Lieut. -Col., 20 Apr 1881; Col., 20 Apr 1885; ret. 16 Apr 1894; served in Indian Mutiny, in Yusufzai expedition 1858 and in expedition against Waziris 1859; Superintendent, Dhar State 1861-3; with Central Provinces Commission 1864-85; Minister, Bhopal State 1885-8; Commissioner, Nerbudda Division, Central Provinces 1889-92; CIE 2 Jan 1888; JP Berkshire 1900; m. 14 Nov 1868 Mary Kate Worsley, fourth dau. of Rev. John Fisher Turner, Rector of St. Mary Major, Exeter; d. 22 Dec 1907.

WARD, SIR EDWARD, BART., son of Sir Edward Ward, Bart., and Jane, dau. of William Rant MD, Thorpe Market, Norfolk; bapt. Bixley, Norfolk 31 Aug 1668; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1689, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1689, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1690, matr. 1689; succ. brother as 4th baronet Jan 1692; adm. Middle Temple 22 May 1693; m. 25 Apr 1697 (IGI) Barbara, dau. of Leonard Gooch, Earsham, Norfolk; buried Bixley, Norfolk 2 Aug 1719.

Ward, Cuthbert John Stanhope, brother of Aidan. Crawley Pulleine Ward (qv); b. 2 July 1913: adm. May 1927 (B); left July 1931; Keble Coll. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 1937, MA 1946; KOYLI 1940-5 (Capt.); asst master Stamford Sch., Lincs.; d. 14 June 1982.

WARD, CHARLES FIELDING, eldest son of John Ward, Bebside, Northumberland, and Mary, dau. of Capt. Charles Fielding; bapt. St. John, Newcastle upon Tyne 6 Oct 1768; adm. 10 Apr 1779; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Apr 1785, aged 16; migr. to University Coll.; BA 1789; MA 1791; BCL 1795; adm. Gray’s Inn 24 Apr 1784, called to bar 16 May 1794; d. 30 Apr 1799.

Ward, Alexander Sydney, son of H. G. Ward of Cheam, Surrey; b. 10 Mar. 1919; adm. Jan. 1933 (A); left July 1937; RASC in WW2; St Cath. Soc. Oxf., matric. 1943; d. July 2003.