Family
Ward was the grandnephew of Robert Plumer Ward, the nephew of Sir Henry George Ward, and the son of William Ward.
He was the father of Newman's biographer, Wilfrid Philip Ward; a grandfather of Father Leo Ward, a missioner in Japan and co-founder of Sheed & Ward, and of Leo's sister, the writer and publisher, Maisie Ward; and a great-grandfather of the translator, Rosemary Sheed, and of Rosemary's brother, the novelist, Wilfrid Sheed.
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