Wilfrid Philip Ward

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Wilfrid Ward

Wilfrid Philip Ward (2 January 1856 – 9 April 1916) was an English essayist and biographer. Ward and his friend Baron Friedrich von Hügel have been described as "the two leading lay English Catholic thinkers of their generation".[1][2]

Life

Wilfrid Ward was born in 1856 at Old Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire, one of nine children of Catholic converts William George Ward and his wife Frances Wingfield Ward.[3]

He first went to Downside College, then St. Edmund's College in Ware, Hertfordshire. He obtained a B.A. degree from London University and later attended Catholic University College, Kensington. In 1877, Ward went to the English College, Rome to prepare for the priesthood and returned a year later to continue his studies at Ushaw College, in Durham, England. In 1881, shortly before his planned ordination, Ward reconsidered, and joined the Inner Temple to take up a career in law. Subsequently discouraged, he then became a writer.[3] Ward’s particular interests were apologetics and theology.

In 1885 Ward became a lecturer on philosophy at Ushaw. In 1887 he married Josephine Mary Hope-Scott; the couple lived on the Isle of Wight. Josephine Ward became a novelist.[4] They had five children. The eldest, Mary Josephine "Maisie" married Frank Sheed and together founded the publishing house Sheed and Ward.

Biographer

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Wilfrid Ward, Photographed by F. S. Clark, n.d.

In 1889, Ward published a biography of his father, William George Ward and the Oxford Movement.[5] This proving successful, he then wrote William George Ward and the Catholic Revival,.[6] Cardinal Herbert Vaughan then invited Ward to write a biography of the late Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.[7] This was followed in 1912 by a two volume biography of John Henry Newman.[8]

In 1890 Ward was appointed examiner in Mental and Moral Philosophy to the Royal University of Ireland.[3] He lectured at Lowell Institute, Boston in 1914.

Editor

From 1906 to 1915, Ward edited the Dublin Review. During his tenure, the journal published articles by G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Francis Thompson and other well-known writers. Ward believed very strongly that Catholics should be involved in the affairs of the nation.

He also contributed to publications such as the Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, Contemporary Review. Wilfrid Ward died in 1916.

Publications

See also

Notes

  1. Michael de la Bedoyère, The Life of Baron von Hügel (1951). London: J. M. Dent, p. 292
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  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Papers of Wilfrid Ward", University of St Andrews Special Collections
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  5. William George Ward and the Oxford Movement, Macmillan & Co., 1893 [1st Pub. 1889]
  6. William George Ward and the Catholic Revival,, Macmillan & Co., 1893, second edition, 1912
  7. The Life and Times of Nicholas Wiseman, Vol. 2, Longmans, Green & Co., 1897]
  8. Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman, Based on his Private Journals and Correspondence, Vol. 2, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912]
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  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "Ward, Wilfrid Philip". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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