Adolphus Ward

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Sir Adolphus William Ward Template:Post-nominals (2 December 1837 – 19 June 1924) was an English historian and man of letters.

LifeEdit

Ward was born at Hampstead, London, the son of John Ward. He was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge.<ref name=acad>Template:Acad</ref>

In 1866, Ward was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired.

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He was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 5.3.1985 and he was a founder of Withington Girls' School in 1890.<ref name=WGS>Template:Cite book</ref> He was a Member of the Chetham Society, serving as a member of council from 1884 and as president from 1901 until 1915.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1897, the freedom of the city of Manchester was conferred upon him, he delivered the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in 1898, and on 29 October 1900 he was elected master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.<ref>The colleges and halls – Peterhouse | British History Online</ref>

He was elected in 1903 a fellow of the British Academy and was the academy's president from 1911 to 1913.<ref name=acad/> In 1919 he delivered the British Academy's Shakespeare Lecture.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ward served as president of the Royal Historical Society from 1899 to 1901,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and he was knighted in 1913.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

WorksEdit

Ward's major work is his standard History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne (1875),<ref>books.google.com</ref> re-edited after a thorough revision in three volumes in 1899. He also wrote The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War (1869),<ref>The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War, archive.org</ref> Great Britain and Hanover: Some Aspects of the Personal Union (1899),<ref>Great Britain and Hanover: Some Aspects of the Personal Union, archive.org</ref> and The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession (1903) (2nd ed. 1909).<ref>The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession, archive.org</ref><ref name="EB1911"/> His Germany, 1815–1890 has three volumes.

Ward edited George Crabbe's Poems (2 vols., 1905–1906) and Alexander Pope's Poetical Works (1869); he wrote the volumes on Geoffrey Chaucer and Charles Dickens in the "English Men of Letters" series, translated Ernst Curtius's History of Greece (5 vols., 1868–1873); with G. W. Prothero and Stanley Mordaunt Leathes he edited the Cambridge Modern History between 1901 and 1912,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and with A. R. Waller edited the Cambridge History of English Literature (1907, etc.).<ref name="EB1911"/>

Ward's collected papers were published in 5 volumes by Cambridge University Press in 1921.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

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