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Reginald Henshaw Ward ('Men of the Day. No. 754.')
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Reginald Henshaw Ward ('Men of the Day. No. 754.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 13 July 1899
14 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (359 mm x 242 mm) paper size
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NPG D44969
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- Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), 'Spy'; caricaturist and portrait painter; son of Edward Matthew Ward. Artist or producer associated with 1617 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.
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George Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Curzon, is appointed Viceroy of India, pursuing a mixed policy of forceful control and conciliation. Curzon's inquiries into Indian administration result in legislation in areas including education, irrigation, and policing. The Board of Education is created to co-ordinate the work of higher grade elementary schools, county technical schools and endowed grammar schools, also setting up a register of teachers.Art and science
The Italian Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first wireless telegraph, between France and England across the English Channel, a distance of 32 miles. Marconi's production of waves over long distances lays the foundations for the development of the radio. Later this year, Marconi demonstrates his invention in America, at the Cup yacht race, and for the American navy.International
Outbreak of the second Boer war, fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Despite a disastrous start, Britain quickly won the war, although guerilla warfare continued until 1902, leading to the introduction of concentration camps by British commander Lord Kitchener, a measure which contributes to the British public's growing disillusionment with the campaign.Comments back to top
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Stephen Nason
27 October 2019, 03:01
There is a fairly comprehensive business biography of Reginald Henshaw Ward in the Financial Times in 1911, published when he was facing bankruptcy proceedings. The FT story says that he was at that time a 54 year old company promoter from American who had come to England in 1897 to represent his company, Clark Ward & Co. In 1901 he began stock and share dealings as Ward Armstrong and Co., and in the following year he brought in a partner with £7,500 capital. The partnership dissolved in 1904 with all debts discharged and with Ward receiving £20,000 in securities. He traded alone as Ward & Co. dealing in financial and mining ventures until suffering from the heavy devaluation of his share holdings in two mines in Utah. He then invested in cold storage companies which caused him additional losses. By the time he was adjudged insolvent he was worth just £400.
Ward used the title Count Ward (possibly assuming the style of an aristocrat after he became, through purchase, the lord of the Manor of North Scarle in Lincolnshire). When his London premises at Fulwell Park, Twickenham, were burgled in 1910 the press (eg. Evening Express (Cardiff)) described him as "a Councillor of the Nicaraguan Legation at Lisbon, and is lord of the manor of North Scarle, near Lincoln. He organised the banking house of Clark, Ward, and Co., Boston and New York, now Ward and Co." The burglars, with shoes wrapped in cloth, gained entry by breaking a ground floor window. They stole silver goods but left alone his collection of picture miniatures worth £50 each.