Adolphus Ward
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Sir Adolphus William Ward
Life
Ward was born at Hampstead, London, the son of John Ward. He was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge.[1]
In 1866, Ward was appointed professor of history and English literature in
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.[5]
He was elected in 1903 a fellow of the British Academy and was the academy's president from 1911 to 1913.[1] In 1919 he delivered the British Academy's Shakespeare Lecture.[6][7]
Ward served as president of the Royal Historical Society from 1899 to 1901,[8] and he was knighted in 1913.[9]
Works
Ward's major work is his standard History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne (1875), His Germany, 1815–1890 has three volumes.
Ward edited
Ward's collected papers were published in 5 volumes by Cambridge University Press in 1921.[14]
Notes
- ^ a b "Ward, Adolphus William (WRT855AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ward, Adolphus William". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 319. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Newsletter 1936-1937. Withington Girls' School. 5 February 1937.
- ^ "Chetham Society: Officers and Council" (PDF). Chetham Society. 4 November 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ The colleges and halls – Peterhouse | British History Online
- ^ Ward, A. W. "Shakespeare and the Makers of Virginia". Proceedings of the British Academy, 1919–1920. 11: 141–185.
- ^ "Shakespeare Lectures". The British Academy.
- ^ "List of Presidents". Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
- Cambridge Modern Historyof the Cambridge History of English Literature
- ^ books.google.com
- ^ The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War, archive.org
- ^ Great Britain and Hanover: Some Aspects of the Personal Union, archive.org
- ^ The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession, archive.org
- ^ Hutton, W. H. (October 1922). "The Collected Papers of A. W. Ward". The Quarterly Review. 238: 314–326.
External links
- Works by Adolphus Ward at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Adolphus Ward at Internet Archive
- Works by Adolphus Ward at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Chetham Society