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| birth_date = 1863
| death_date = 1919
| address = Shepherd's Hill House, Harefield, Uxbridge [1894]<br />53 Chester Square, SW[1897]
| occupation = artist<br />literary<br />explorer
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1891.11.24
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| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1906 last listed
| clubs = St James's Club<br />Union Artistique
| societies = Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal British Society of Sculptors
=== 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]<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 />