Wilfrid Philip Ward

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Name Wilfrid Ward Role Essayist		Parents William George Ward

Died 1916, Hampstead, United Kingdom Books William George Ward and, William George Ward and, The Oxford movement, Aubrey De Vere: A Memoir, Problems and persons
Education St Edmund's College, Ware

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.

Ward and his friend Baron Friedrich von Hügel have been described as "the two leading lay English Catholic thinkers of their generation".

Publications

William George Ward and the Oxford Movement, Macmillan & Co., 1893 [1st Pub. 1889].

William George Ward and the Catholic Revival, Macmillan & Co., 1893 [second edition, 1912.

Witnesses to the Unseen, and Other Essays Macmillan & Co., 1893.

The Life and Times of Nicholas Wiseman, Vol. 2, Longmans, Green & Co., 1897.

Problems and Persons, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903

Aubrey de Vere: A Memoir, Longmans, Green & Co., 1904.

Ten Personal Studies, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908.

Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman, Based on his Private Journals and Correspondence, Vol. 2, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912.

The Oxford Movement, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1912.

Men and Matters, Longmans, Green & Co., 1914.

Last Lectures of Wilfrid Ward, Longmans, Green & Co., 1918

References

Wilfrid Philip Ward Wikipedia

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