Ward, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM

Ward, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM, was born at Hampstead, December 2, 1837, and had his education in Germany, at Bury St Edmunds, and St Peter's College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1860. In 1866 he became Professor of History and English Literature at Owens College, Manchester, its Principal in 1888, and in 1896 Master of Peterhouse. He received the degrees of LL.D. from Glasgow in 1879 and Litt.D. from Cambridge in 1883. He translated Curtius' History of Greece (5 vols. 1868-73), and wrote a profoundly learned and invaluable History of English Dramatic Literature (2 vols. 1875). Other works are Chaucer (1880) and Dickens (1882) in 'English Men of Letters,' the Globe edition of Pope's poetry (1869), and Marlowe's Faustus, together with Greene's Friar Bacon (1878), for the Clarendon Press.