Wilfrid Philip Ward was an English essayist and biographer.

Biography

He was born in 1856 at Old Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire to William George Ward

William George Ward

William George Ward was an English Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician whose career illustrates the development of religious opinion at a time of crisis in the history of English religious thought....

. He attended St. Edmund's College

St. Edmund's College

There are a number of colleges named after Saint Edmund. These include:*St Edmund's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge*St Edmund's College, Ware*St Edmund's College, Canberra*St. Edmund's College, Shillong...

 in Ware, Hertfordshire; Ushaw College

Ushaw College

Ushaw College was a Roman Catholic seminary near Durham, England that closed in 2011. Ushaw was the principal seminary in the north of England for the training of Catholic priests.-History:...

, in Durham, England; and Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Afterward, he was occupied at educational institutions in Great Britain. He lectured at Lowell Institute

Lowell Institute

The Lowell Institute is an educational foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., providing for free public lectures, and endowed by the bequest of $250,000 left by John Lowell, Jr., who died in 1836. Under the terms of his will 10% of the net income was to be added to the principal, which in...

, Boston in 1915. He edited the Dublin Review

Dublin Review (Catholic periodical)

The Dublin Review was an influential Catholic periodical founded in 1836 by Michael Joseph Quin, Cardinal Wiseman and Daniel O'Connell. Quin had the original idea for the new journal, soon persuading Wiseman to lend his support, and next enlisting O'Connell whose Catholic Emancipation campaign he...

, contributed to publications such as the Edinburgh Review

Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It ceased publication in 1929. The magazine took its Latin motto judex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur from Publilius Syrus.In 1984, the Scottish cultural magazine New Edinburgh Review,...

, Quarterly Review

Quarterly Review

The Quarterly Review was a literary and political periodical founded in March 1809 by the well known London publishing house John Murray. It ceased publication in 1967.-Early years:...

, Contemporary Review. He died in 1916.

Publications

• William George Ward and the Oxford Movement (1889).
• William George Ward and the Catholic Revival (1893; second edition, 1912).
• Witnesses to the Unseen (1894).
• The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman (1894).
• Aubrey de Vere
  Aubrey Thomas de Vere
  Aubrey Thomas de Vere was an Irish poet and critic.-Life:He was born at Curraghchase_Forest_Park, Kilcornan, County Limerick, the third son of Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt and younger brother to Stephen De Vere. In 1832 his father dropped the final name by royal licence. Sir Aubrey was himself a poet...
  
  : A Memoir (1904).
• Ten Personal Studies (1908).
• Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman (1912).
• Men and Matters (1914).

Further reading

• Maisie Ward
  Maisie Ward
  Maisie Ward , scion of one of Britain's distinguished Catholic families, was a writer, publisher, and speaker.-Life:Famous in her day as one of the names behind the imprint Sheed & Ward and as a forceful public lecturer in the Catholic Evidence Guild, her reputation has dimmed in subsequent decades...
  
   (1934), The Wilfrid Wards and the Transition, London: Sheed & Ward.
• Maisie Ward (1937), Insurrection versus Resurrection, London: Sheed & Ward.
• Wilfrid Sheed
  Wilfrid Sheed
  Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed was an English-born American novelist and essayist.Sheed was born in London to Francis "Frank" Sheed and Mary "Maisie" Ward, prominent Roman Catholic publishers in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-20th century...
  
  (1985), Frank and Maisie: A Memoir with Parents, New York: Simon & Schuster.