John Ward ( c 1679 - 1758 )

Birth: London, England (c 1679) Death: In his apartments, Gresham College, London (17 October 1758) Burial: At the dissenter's burial ground, Bunhill Fields, London Profession: Schoolmaster Education: Studied with John Ker in his leisure time from the Navy Office; Edinburgh; LLD (1751) Career: Clerk in the Navy Office; opened a school in Tenter Alley, Moorfields, London (1710); Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London (1720); wrote a biography of the Professors of Gresham College; travelled through Holland and Flanders to Paris (1733); one of the original Trustees of the British Museum Memberships: FSA (1736); Spalding Society Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1723 Proposers: John Harwood Council: VP 1753-?.