Editing Adolphus Ward

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'''Sir Adolphus William Ward''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS|FBA}} (2 December 1837 – 19 June 1924) was an English historian and [[man of letters]].

==Life==
Ward was born at [[Hampstead]], [[London]], the son of [[John Ward (diplomat, died 1890)|John Ward]]. He was educated in [[Germany]] and at [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]].<ref name=acad>{{acad|id=WRT855AW|name=Ward, Adolphus William}}</ref>

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

He took an active part in the foundation of [[Victoria University (UK)|Victoria University]], of which he was vice-chancellor from 1886 to 1890 and from 1894 to 1896,<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Ward, Adolphus William|volume=28|page=319}}</ref> 

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>{{cite book|publisher=Withington Girls' School|title=Newsletter 1936-1937|date=5 February 1937}}</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>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chethamsociety.org.uk/pdf/CS_Officers_Council.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117063851/http://www.chethamsociety.org.uk/pdf/CS_Officers_Council.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 November 2015 |title=Chetham Society: Officers and Council |publisher=Chetham Society |date=2015-11-04 |access-date=2015-11-04 }}</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>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66643#s11 The colleges and halls – Peterhouse | British History Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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>{{cite journal|title=Shakespeare and the Makers of Virginia|author=Ward, A. W.|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy, 1919–1920|pages=141–185|volume=11|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015029392563&view=1up&seq=161&q1=shakespeare}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Shakespeare Lectures|website=The British Academy|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/listings/shakespeare-lectures/}}</ref>

Ward served as president of the [[Royal Historical Society]] from 1899 to 1901,<ref>{{ cite web|url=http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhspresidents.doc |title=List of Presidents |publisher=Royal Historical Society |access-date=20 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716111002/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhspresidents.doc |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}</ref> and he was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1913.<ref>{{cite news|title=Birthday Honours|date=3 June 1913|work=The Times|pages=9–10|location=London, England|quote="The distinguished historian and critic; Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, since 1900; [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Cambridge]], 1901; one of the editors of the [[Cambridge Modern History]] of the Cambridge History of English Literature"}}</ref>

==Works==
Ward's major work is his standard ''History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne'' (1875),<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_English_Dramatic_Literature.html?id=S_dFbWNzk-0C 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>[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027842487 ''The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War'', archive.org]</ref> ''Great Britain and [[Hanover]]: Some Aspects of the Personal Union'' (1899),<ref>[https://archive.org/details/greatbritainhano00warduoft ''Great Britain and Hanover: Some Aspects of the Personal Union'', archive.org]</ref> and ''The [[Sophia of the Palatinate|Electress Sophia]] and the Hanoverian Succession'' (1903) (2nd ed. 1909).<ref>[https://archive.org/details/electresssophiah00wardrich ''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 [[George Walter Prothero|G. W. Prothero]] and [[Stanley Mordaunt Leathes]] he edited the ''[[Cambridge Modern History]]'' between 1901 and 1912,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Leathes |first=Stanley |last2=Gooch |first2=G. P. |date=1924 |title=The Editorial Methods of Sir Adolphus Ward |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3020815 |journal=Cambridge Historical Journal |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=219–224 |issn=1474-6913}}</ref> and with [[Alfred Rayney Waller|A. R. Waller]] edited the ''[[The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|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>{{cite journal|author=Hutton, W. H.|author-link=William Holden Hutton|title=The Collected Papers of A. W. Ward|journal=The Quarterly Review|date=October 1922|volume=238|pages=314–326|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044092529312;view=1up;seq=338}}</ref>

==Notes==
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== External links ==
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