Ida C. Ward

Her 1933 collaboration with Diedrich Hermann Westermann, Practical Phonetics for Students of African languages, has been reprinted many times.

African languages she worked on include Efik (1933), Igbo (1936, 1941), Mende (1944), and Yoruba (published posthumously in 1952).

[1] 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.

[3] 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.