John Manning Ward, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian academic
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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About John Manning Ward
- John Manning Ward (6 July 1919 – 6 May 1990) was a Vice-Chancellor and Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney. Ward was born in Sydney and was educated at Fort Street Boys High School and the University of Sydney.
- He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1948. Professor Ward was a distinguished historian, serving as Challis Professor of History from 1948 to 1979.
- He steered the History Department through a period of scarce resources into an era of expansion. He produced major books and articles on British, Imperial and Australian history.
- His books include British Policy in the South Pacific, 1796-1893 (reprinted three times); 'Earl Grey and the Australian Colonies, 1847-1856; Colonial Self-Government, the British Experience, 1759-1856; and James Macarthur, Colonial Conservative, 1798-1867, the latter being the first in a trilogy on conservatism in Australia.
- Professor Ward had planned on retirement to complete the other two books in the series. He was appointed Visiting Professor at Yale University in 1963; Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 1968; and was the Smuts Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University in 1972.
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