Ward, Thomas Asline ___ 1781-1871 ___ British ___ tradesman

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There appears to be very little information about Ward available on the internet. He lived in Sheffield, and married Ann Lewin in 1814, but she died 12 years later. He seems to have devoted most of his life to good works, and to have become something of a local celebrity. However, he failed to get into Parliament and never reached any high office. His diary covers most of his life, and provides an interesting, if somewhat pompous, record of the times.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1800-1871 ___ political social family self

WEB TEXT LINKS
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
 

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Peeps into the Past
 

December 2005, August 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.