Transcript

of

Rev. Joseph Heald Ward. M.A. [Obituary]

Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. 52, (1920), pp. 46-47.

by

Maxwell Adams (Ed.)

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Obituary was read at the Association’s July 1920 Totnes meeting. Rev. Ward when Rector of Gussage in Dorset’s marriage, to Laetitia Wyndham is recorded in Burke’s Colonial Gentry, 1891, page 306. A surname index to his paper on "Counsellor John Were of Silverton and the Siege of Exeter, 1645-6," published in the 1910 Association Transactions (p. 383), is presented on GENUKI Devon’s Silverton page. This obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

The Rev. J. H. Ward, who joined the Devonshire Association in 1901, was the son of Isaac Ward, Esq., of Clifton, near York, and was born in 1839. After graduating at Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled on the Continent and did some Alpine mountaineering under the guidance of Mr. John Barrow of the Royal Society.
In 1866 he became Curate to the Ven. Archdeacon Honey at Baverstoke, near Salisbury; in 1869 he was presented by Lord Portman to the Rectory of Gussage in Dorset, and in 1894 was instituted to the Rectory of Silverton in Devon, which living he resigned in 1909 and retired to Exmouth, where he died 22nd March, 1920.
In 1868 he married Laetitia, younger daughter of Mr. William Wyndham, and leaves one son, Francis Wyndham, of the Indian Civil Service, and two daughters, the elder of whom is married to the Rev. E. S. Chalk, M.A., Rector of Silverton.
Among his literary productions are papers on "Herrick" and on "Counsellor John Were of Silverton and the Siege of Exeter, 1645-6," both printed in the Transactions