Arnold Ward

Arnold Ward circa 1906
Huxley and Arnold family tree.

Arnold Sandwith Ward (1876–1950) was an English journalist and Conservative Party politician. He served as the MP for the constituency of Watford between 1910 and 1918.

Ward was the son of Humphry "Thomas" Ward, a fellow and tutor of Brasenose College and Mary Augusta Ward, a popular author; grandson of Tom Arnold; greatgrandson of Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.[1]

While at Oxford he played one first-class cricket match for the university side as a lower-order right-handed batsman and medium-pace right-arm bowler; he also played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire between 1896 and 1905.[2]

  1. ^ Spartacus page on Arnold Ward Archived 26 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Player Profile: Arnold Ward". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 May 2013.