Herbert Ward
| Herbert Ward | |||||||||
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| Born | 1863 | ||||||||
| Died | 1919 | ||||||||
| Residence | 53 Chester Square, SW | ||||||||
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artist literary explorer | ||||||||
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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
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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]
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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]