Arnold Ward

[2] After working as a special correspondent for The Times in Egypt, the Sudan and India from 1899 to 1902,[3] and as a solicitor,[1] he was elected to parliament in 1910.

His mother was a founder of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, and Ward spoke in support of their cause as an MP.

From November 1916 to February 1917 he was attached 3rd Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers, then to the Machine Gun Corps, February–May 1917.

[7] For the 1918 general election the Conservative party dropped him as candidate in favour of Dennis Herbert.

On the death of his mother in 1920 the family home, Stocks House at Aldbury in Hertfordshire, had to be sold to pay off his gambling debts.