Title: Thomas Humphry Ward Letter (VMF177), 1923
Administrative/Biographical History
Thomas Humphry Ward (November 9, 1845 – May 6, 1926) was an English author and journalist, most notable as the husband of Mrs Humphry Ward, who became a best-selling novelist of Victorian values. He was born at Kingston upon Hull and studied at Merchant Taylors' School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, at which he became a fellow in 1869 and a tutor in 1870.
His compositions consisted of editorials which he submitted to The Times. Additionally, he edited a four-volume anthology, The Spanish Poets (1880); Men of the Reign (1885); The Reign of Queen Victoria (1887); English Art in the Public Galleries of London (1888); and Men of the Time, which ran to 12 editions. He wrote alone Humphry Sandwith, a Memoir (1884), and jointly The Oxford Spectator (1868) and Romney (1904).
