His second wife died in 1831, and after marrying, thirdly, in 1833, Mary Anne, widow of Charles Gregory Okeover and daughter of Lieutenant-general Sir George Anson, a lady of fortune, he spent a considerable portion of his time abroad. He, however, still continued to write, and after the publication of a number of minor works, published his novel, ‘De Clifford; or, the Constant Man,’ in 1841, at the advanced age of seventy-six.
Early in 1846 he moved with his wife to the official residence of her father, Sir George Anson, the governor of Chelsea Hospital, and there died on 13 Aug. the same year. There is a portrait of Ward by Henry P. Briggs, R.A., an engraving of which by Turner is prefixed to the ‘Memoirs.’ Ward, by his first wife, left one son, Sir Henry George Ward [q. v.]
Besides the above-mentioned works, Ward wrote:
- ‘A Treatise of the relative Rights and Duties of Belligerents and Neutral Powers in Maritime Affairs, in which the Principles of the armed Neutralities and the Opinions of Hübner and Schlegel are fully discussed,’ London, 1801, 8vo.
- ‘An Essay on Contraband; being a Continuation of the Treatise of the relative Rights and Duties,’ &c. 1801, 8vo.
- ‘Illustrations of Human Life,’ 1837; 2nd edit. 1843. ‘Saint Lawrence’ in this work is an elaboration of a true story (see Hunter's Alienation and Recovery of the Offley Estates, p. 3).
- ‘An Historical Essay on the real Character and Amount of the Precedent of the Revolution of 1688,’ 1838, 2 vols. 12mo. On this work being badly reviewed in the ‘Edinburgh Review’ and styled a tory pamphlet in the disguise of history, Ward answered the reviewer in an anonymous pamphlet entitled ‘The Reviewer Reviewed.’
- ‘Pictures of the World at Home and Abroad,’ 1839, 3 vols. 8vo. Selections from his unpublished works are contained in vol. ii. of Phipps's ‘Memoir;’ these are short essays on different subjects under the title of ‘The Day Dreamer.’
The published portion of Ward's ‘Diary’ extends from 1809 to 22 Nov. 1820; the remaining portion was not published owing to the editor regarding it (in 1850) as comprehending a period too recent. Many of his letters to Peter George Patmore [q. v.], who acted for him as a critical adviser in literary matters, are contained in Patmore's ‘Friends and Acquaintances’ (ii. 8–202). Ward edited ‘Chatsworth, or the Romance of a Week,’ a number of tales by Patmore.
[Gent. Mag. 1846, ii. 650; Times and Morning Post, 18 Aug. 1846; Hansard's Parl. Debates, and Phipps's Memoir of the Political and Literary Life of R. P. Ward.]
WARD, SAMUEL (1577–1640), of Ipswich, puritan divine, emblematist, and caricaturist, was born in Suffolk in 1577, being son of John Ward, minister of Haverhill in that county, by his wife Susan (Cooper, Athenæ Cantabr. ii. 310). Nathaniel Ward [q. v.] was his younger brother. Another brother, John, was rector of St. Clement's, Ipswich, where there is a tablet with a short inscription in his memory. Samuel was admitted a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, on the Lady Margaret's foundation, on the nomination of Lord Burghley, 6 Nov. 1594. He went out B.A. as a member of that house in 1596-7, was appointed one of the first fellows of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1599, and commenced M.A. in 1600. Having finished his studies at the university, he became lecturer at Haverhill, where he laboured with great success and became the 'spiritual father' of Samuel Fairclough (Clarke, Lives of Eminent Persons, 1683, i. 154, 159). On 1 Nov. 1603 he was elected by the corporation of Ipswich to the office of town preacher, and he occupied the pulpit of St. Mary-le-Tower T with little intermission, for about thirty years. The corporation appointed a hundred marks as his stipend, and allowed him 6l. 13s. 4d. quarterly in addition for house rent. In 1604 he vacated his fellowship at Sidney College by his marriage with Deborah Bolton, widow, of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, and in 1607 he proceeded to the degree of B.D. In the eighth year of James I (1610-1611) the corporation of Ipswich increased his salary to 90l., and six years later it was further increased to 100l. per annum. He was one of the preachers at St. Paul's Cross, London, in 1616.
In 1621 he showed his skill as a caricaturist by producing a picture which Count Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador in London, represented as an insult to his royal master. On one side was to be seen the wreck of the armada, driven in wild confusion by the storm; on the other side was the detection of the 'gunpowder plot;' and in the centre the pope and the cardinals appeared in consultation with the king of Spain and the devil (Harl. MS. 389, f. 13; Addit. MS. 5883, f. 32 b). Ward, whose name was engraved upon the print as the designer, was sent for by a messenger, and, I after being examined by the privy council, he was committed to prison. After a brief detention he was permitted to return to Ipswich, and he subsequently confined his talents as a designer to the ornamentation of the title-pages of his published sermons.
