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| − | | address = 53 Chester Square, SW | + | | address = Shepherd's Hill House, Harefield, Uxbridge [1894]<br />53 Chester Square, SW [1897] |
| occupation = artist<br />literary<br />explorer | | occupation = artist<br />literary<br />explorer | ||
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| − | | elected_AI = 1891 | + | | elected_AI = 1891.11.24 |
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| membership = ordinary fellow | | membership = ordinary fellow | ||
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| clubs = St James's Club<br />Union Artistique | | clubs = St James's Club<br />Union Artistique | ||
| societies = Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal British Society of Sculptors | | societies = Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal British Society of Sculptors | ||
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=== Notes From Elsewhere === | === Notes From Elsewhere === | ||
Herbert Ward (11 January 1863, in London – 5 August 1919, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition who became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo Free State. He later became a sculptor and lived in France. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre,[1] was twice mentioned in dispatches in World War I, was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur[2] and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.[3]<br />He left Mill Hill School at the age of 15, and travelled to New Zealand, spending the next three years in New Zealand and Australia. He was "in turn kauri-gum digger, coal and gold miner, stock-rider, circus performer and sail-maker".[4] He then spent a year as a cadet with the British North Borneo Company, before a bout of malaria forced him to return to England.<br /><br />Died Paris. Member of H.M. Stanley’s Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-9. Published three books on the expedition. Croix de Guerre<br /> | Herbert Ward (11 January 1863, in London – 5 August 1919, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition who became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo Free State. He later became a sculptor and lived in France. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre,[1] was twice mentioned in dispatches in World War I, was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur[2] and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.[3]<br />He left Mill Hill School at the age of 15, and travelled to New Zealand, spending the next three years in New Zealand and Australia. He was "in turn kauri-gum digger, coal and gold miner, stock-rider, circus performer and sail-maker".[4] He then spent a year as a cadet with the British North Borneo Company, before a bout of malaria forced him to return to England.<br /><br />Died Paris. Member of H.M. Stanley’s Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-9. Published three books on the expedition. Croix de Guerre<br /> | ||
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Office Notes
House Notes
1891.11.10 proposed
Notes From Elsewhere
Herbert Ward (11 January 1863, in London – 5 August 1919, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition who became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo Free State. He later became a sculptor and lived in France. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre,[1] was twice mentioned in dispatches in World War I, was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur[2] and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.[3]
He left Mill Hill School at the age of 15, and travelled to New Zealand, spending the next three years in New Zealand and Australia. He was "in turn kauri-gum digger, coal and gold miner, stock-rider, circus performer and sail-maker".[4] He then spent a year as a cadet with the British North Borneo Company, before a bout of malaria forced him to return to England.
Died Paris. Member of H.M. Stanley’s Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-9. Published three books on the expedition. Croix de Guerre
Publications
External Publications
Five Years With the Congo Cannibals, Chatto & Windus, 1891.[19]
My Life With Stanley's Rear Guard, CL Webster, 1891.[20]
A Voice from the Congo, Scribner & Sons, 1910[21] (French translation published as Chez les Cannibales de l'Afrique Centrale, Plon, Paris, 1910).
Mr Poilu: Notes & Sketches with the Fighting French, Hodder & Stoughton, 1916.[22]
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
The Smithsonian Institution[24] The National Museum of Wales[25] The Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium[26] Mill Hill School, London – Grief, given by the artist The Library of Congress[27] Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes[28] The Johannesburg Art Gallery Le Musée du Luxembourg, Paris Le Musée d'Orsay, Paris[29]
