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WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 319 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- ) , English historian and man of letters, was born at
Hampstead
 , London, on the 2nd of December 1837, and was educated in Germany and at the university of
Cambridge
 . In 1866 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in
Owens
  College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired. He took an active part in the foundation of Victoria University, of which he was vice-chancellor from 1886 to 1890 and from 1894 to 1896. In 1897 the freedom of the city of Manchester was conferred upon him, and in 1900 he was elected master of Peter-
house
 ,
Cambridge
 . His most important
work
  is his standard History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne (1875), re-edited after a thorough revision in three volumes in 1899. He also wrote The
House
  of Austria in the Thirty Years' War (1869),
Great
  Britain and Hanover (1899), The Electress
Sophia
  and the Hanoverian Succession (19o3); he edited Crabbe's Poems (2 vols., 1905-1906) and Pope's Poetical Works (1869); he wrote the volumes on Chaucer and Dickens in the " English Men of Letters "
series
 , translated Curtius's History of Greece (5 vols., 1868-1873); he was one of the editors of the Cambridge Modern History, and with A. R. Waller edited the Cambridge History of English Literature (1907, &c.). For the 9th edition of the Ency. Brit. he wrote the article DRAMA, and biographies of Ben Jonson and other dramatists; and he became an important contributor to the present
work
 .


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