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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.

Ward, Aidan Crawley Pulleine, son of Rev. Arthur Easton Stanley Ward DD, Rector of Duloe, Cornwall, and Marianne, d. of Rt Rev. John James Pulleine DD, Bishop Suffragan of Rich­mond, Yorks; b. 11 May 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (G); left Apr. 1928; Keble Coll. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 193 7, MA 1939; ord. deacon 1937, priest 1938 (Durham); Curate St Aidan West Hartlepool 1937; Chaplain RNVR 1942-6; Vicar of Craghead, Co. Durham, 1947; Rector of Louth with Welton-le-Wold 1952, Witheall 1952-4; Prebendary and Canon of Welton Brinkhall in Lincoln Cathedral 1960, Canon Emeritus 1973; Vicar of Witham-on-the-Hill 1969-73, St Margaret's High Bentham, Lancaster, 1973-9; m. 9 Oct. 1943 Kathleen Dora, d. of Sir Francis James Wylie, Oxford Sec. to the Rhodes Trustees; d. 28 Jan. 1979.

WARD, ---; b.; at school 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).

WARCOPP, JOHN, son of Henry Warcopp, London, merchant, and Elizabeth Vickerey (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 19 Jan 1708 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Feb 1719/20; in under school list 1723; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 Aug 1724, scholar 29 Apr 1726, matr. 1724, readm. as fellow commoner 30 May 1729; LLB 1730.

WARBURTON, WILLIAM PHILIP, son of Ven. Thomas Warburton, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and Rector of Redenhall, Norfolk, and Maria, dau. of Thomas Potter Everard, Brightlingsea, Essex; b.; adm. 27 Apr 1772; Min. Can. 1773; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Sep 1777, matr. Easter 1778, scholar 1780; BA 1782; MA 1785; Fellow, Jesus Coll. 1785; ordained 1783; Curate, Harleston, Norfolk 1783; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev. John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1793; Rector of Ruckinge, Kent, Jun 1793-4; Rector of Biddenden, Kent 1794-7; Vicar of Lydd, Kent, from 1797; m. 20 Mar 1797 Mary Ann Fisher (IGI); d. 7 Jul 1821, aged 59.