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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, 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, 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, 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.

Warburton, Hewitt Bailey, son of. Joseph Roberts Warburton, of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, by Frances Alice, daughter of James Bailey, of Bath, Somerset; b. Jan. 14, 1904; adm. May 2, 1917 (H); left Aug. 1922; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1922; B.A. 1926; managing director of Radio Rentals, Melbourne, Australia; m. June 1942, Nance Margaret Michael, of Melbourne; d. 18 July 1998.

Warburg, Fredric John, only son of John Cimon Warburg, of Paddington, by Violet Amelia, daughter of Edward Ferdinand Sichel; b. Nov. 27, 1898; adm. April 26, 1912 (G); exhibitioner 1912; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1917; B.A. 1923, M.A. 1926; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. Oct. 1, 1917; served in Belgium and France until demob. in Feb. 1919; an apprentice with Geo. Routledge and Sons, Ltd., publishers, Oct. 1922, a managing director 1929-35; managing director and chairman of Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., publishers, since 1936; director of Heinemann Group Ltd., 1961; author of An Occupation for Gentlemen (1959) an autobiography; m. 1st . July 5, 1922, May Nellie, second daughter of H. Holt, of London; 2nd Pamela, eldest daughter of Frederic de Bayou, of Paris; d. 25 May 1981.