Wilfrid Philip Ward

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

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".[1]

Publications

See also

References

  1. Michael de la Bedoyère, The Life of Baron von Hügel (1951). London: J. M. Dent, p. 292

Further reading

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