Wilfrid Philip Ward

Wilfrid Ward

Wilfrid Philip Ward (1856-1916) was an English essayist and biographer.

Biography

He was born in 1856 at Old Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire to William George Ward. He attended St. Edmund's College in Ware, Hertfordshire; Ushaw College, in Durham, England; and Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Afterward, he was occupied at educational institutions in Great Britain. He lectured at Lowell Institute, Boston in 1915. He edited the Dublin Review, contributed to publications such as the Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, Contemporary Review. He died in 1916.

Publications

• William George Ward and the Oxford Movement (1889).
• William George Ward and the Catholic Revival (1893; second edition, 1912).
• Witnesses to the Unseen (1894).
• The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman (1894).
• Aubrey de Vere: A Memoir (1904).
• Ten Personal Studies (1908).
• Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman (1912).
• Men and Matters (1914).

Further reading

• Maisie Ward (1934), The Wilfrid Wards and the Transition, London: Sheed & Ward.
• Maisie Ward (1937), Insurrection versus Resurrection, London: Sheed & Ward.
• Wilfrid Sheed (1985), Frank and Maisie: A Memoir with Parents, New York: Simon & Schuster.

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.