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 WARD 449 and Nell Gwynne" (1848), " The Royal Fam- ily of France in the Temple " (1851), " The Last Sleep of Argyll" (1854), "Ante-Room at Whitehall during the Dying Moments of Charles II." (1861), " Charlotte Corday " (1863), "The Night of Rizzio's Murder" (1865), "Lei- cester and Amy Robsart" (1866), "Juliet and the Friar " (1867), " A Royal Marriage " (1868), "Luther's First Study of the Bible" (1869), "Baxter and Jeffreys" (1870), "Anne Boleyn on the Tower Stairs" (1871), "The Eve of St. Bartholomew" (1873), and "Lady Teazle's Spinster Days" (1875). He became an acade- mician in 1855. WARD, Henry Augustus, an American natural- ist, born in Rochester, N. Y., March 9, 1834. He was educated at Williams college and the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard universi- ty, and became assistant to Prof. Agassiz in the museum of comparative zoology. From 1854 to 1859 he studied in Paris and Freiberg, and travelled through Palestine, Egypt, Nubia, and Arabia, and on the west coast of Africa from Morocco to Guinea, and made a voyage up the river Niger. He has visited the West In- dies and Central America, and in the course of gold-mining investigations crossed the conti- nent six times, at different places. From 1861 to 1866 he was professor of natural sciences in the university of Rochester. In 1871 he was naturalist of the expedition sent by the United States government to Santo Domingo. The " Ward cabinets of mineralogy and geology," collected by him, fill 14 rooms in the univer- sity of Rochester, and he has made an exten- sive collection of modern zoology. He has established a laboratory for the production of facsimiles of rare fossils. WARD, James, an English painter, born in London, Oct. 23, 1769, died at Kensington, Nov. 16, 1859. He learned engraving, but de- voted himself to painting, and so exactly imi- tated Morland that his pictures were often sold as Morlands. His most admired work is the " Alderney Bull, Cow, and Calf," in the national gallery. He became an academician in 1811, and painted until after his 80th year. WARD, John Qnincy Adams, an American sculp- tor, born at Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 1830. He first studied medicine, and then sculpture un- der H. K. Brown from 1850 to 1856. After two years in Washington, modelling portrait busts, he settled in New York in 1861. In 1864 he completed "The Indian Hunter" in bronze for the Central park, New York, for which he has also made bronze statues enti- tled "A Private of the Seventh Regiment" and " Shakespeare." He is the author of " The Good Samaritan," commemorating the discov- ery of anaesthetics, a statue of Commodore Perry, " The Freedman," and many bass re- liefs, groups, &c. In 1874 he became presi- dent of the national academy of design. WARD, Nathaniel, an English clergyman, born at Haverhill, Suffolk, about 1570, died at Shen- field, Essex, in 1653. He was the son of a Pu- ritan clergyman, graduated at Emmanuel col- lege, Cambridge, in 1603, practised law, but in 1626 became preacher at St. James's, Duke's place, London, and afterward rector of Standon Massaye in Essex. Adhering to nonconformist principles, he was suspended by Archbishop Laud in 1633. He sailed for New England in April, 1634, and was settled as pastor in Aga- wam or Ipswich. In February, 1637, he re- signed his charge ; and in May, 1640, he with several others formed the settlement of Ha- verhill. In 1645 he returned to England, be- came pastor of Shenfield, and was a subscriber to the " Essex Testimony." He published, un- der the pseudonyme of Theodore de la Guard, " The Simple Cobbler of Agawam," a political satire (London, 1647; reprinted, 96 pages, Bos- ton, 1843), and " Mercurius Antimechanicus, or the Simple Cobbler's Boy, with his Lap full of Caveats" (1648), a satire against the London preachers. A memoir of him was published by John Ward Dean (8vo, Albany, 1868). WARD, Robert Plnmer, an English author, born in London, March 19, 1765, died at Oke- over hall, Aug. 13, 1846. He was educated at Oxford, and in 1790 was admitted to the bar. In 1805 he was appointed one of the Welsh judges, and soon afterward under secretary of state for foreign affairs, from 1807 to 1811 was a lord of the admiralty, in 1811 became clerk of the ordnance, and in 1823 one of the audi- tors of the civil list. He wrote a " History of the Law of Nations in Europe from the Time of the Greeks and Romans to the Age of Gro- tius" (2 vols. 8vo, 1795); "Treatise of the Rights and Duties of Belligerent and Neutral Powers" (1801), with a continuation entitled " Essay on Contraband " (1801) ; " Tremaine," a novel '(1825) ; " De Vere," a novel (1827) ; "Illustrations of Human Life" (1837); "Pic- tures of the World " (1839) ; " Historical Essay on the Revolution of 1688" (2 vols. 8vo, 1838) ; and "De Clifford,'-' a novel (1841). His diary has been published under the title "Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward, Esq." (2 vols. 8vo, 1850). WARD. I. Samnel, an American patriot, born in Newport, R. I., May 27, 1725, died in Phil- adelphia, March 26, 1776. He was a delegate to the convention at Hartford in 1758 to settle the quotas of New England troops in the French war, became chief justice of Rhode Island in 1761, and was colonial governor in 1762-'5 and in 1766. He was one of the found- ers (1764) of Rhode Island college, afterward Brown university. In 1774-'6, with Stephen Hopkins, he was a delegate to the continental congress at Philadelphia. II. Samuel, an Amer- ican soldier, son of the preceding, born in Westerley, R. I., Nov. 17, 1756, died in New York, Aug. 16, 1832. He graduated at Rhode Island college in 1771, became a captain in the revolutionary army in 1775, and was with Ar- nold in the attack upon Quebec, where he was taken prisoner, but at the close of 1776 was exchanged. Subsequently as major and lieu-