Pages: 276. Publisher: Stephen Saunders.
Author: Stephen Saunders
Published: Summer 2019
“There is a well-known lithograph of a cricket match between Sussex and Kent, and in the bottom right hand corner of this lithograph there is an elderly gentleman seated on a chair taking no interest in the game whatsoever. I was intrigued as to who this gentleman was and discovered his name was William Ward.
Ward is generally only known by cricket historians as the gentleman who saved Lord’s cricket ground from the developers when he purchased the lease from Thomas Lord. However looking at the man there would seem to be more to him than just that. So my research started and I was certainly right. He was a very formidable character. In addition to his contribution to the Marylebone Cricket Club, he was a leading merchant banker in the City of London, the youngest director of the Bank of England, an extremely active Member of Parliament and had a fascinating family. In addition to
which he has a river and settlement named after him in Australia.
These aspects of his life seem to be totally forgotten. Hence this biography of William Ward.”
*Copies of the book are available from the author at £24 inclusive of UK postage. Stephen can be contacted at oastcottage@btinternet.com.
For those in the Southern Hemisphere, Roger Page will shortly have the book in stock.
