Ida C. Ward, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ida C. Ward

British linguist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1880

Place of Birth: Bradford, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1949

Profession: linguist, suffragist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ida Caroline Ward, (4 October 1880 – 10 October 1949) was a British linguist working mainly on African languages who did influential work in the domains of phonology and tonology.
Her 1933 collaboration with Diedrich Hermann Westermann, Practical Phonetics for Students of African languages, was reprinted many times.
African languages she worked on include Efik (1933), Igbo (1936, 1941), Mende (1944), and Yoruba (published posthumously in 1952).Born in Bradford, Ida Ward was the eighth child of a Yorkshire wool merchant.
She studied for a B.Litt degree at Durham University, as a member of the then recently founded Women's Hostel, graduating in 1902.
Following this she taught as a secondary school teacher for 16 years before becoming an academic.
From 1919 to 1932 she worked in the phonetics department at University College London with the famous phonetician Daniel Jones; in 1932 she moved on to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, becoming a professor in 1944.
In her books on African languages she gave a detailed account of the tones of the languages, and in her day was one of the leading authorities in the subject.