Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward CB CMG (21 November 1866 – 19 December 1934) was an English Liberal Party politician, trade union leader and soldier.

In 1885, he enlisted in the British Army and served in the Sudan campaign, where he worked on the uncompleted military railway from Suakin to Berber.

On 9 November 1886 he took part in the meeting in Trafalgar Square which had been specially organised by the SDF to test the legality of the proclamation of Sir Charles Warren, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, that demonstrations of the unemployed could not be held there.

In 1906 he was elected to the House of Commons as Liberal–Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-upon-Trent, having refused to sign the Labour Representation Committee constitution three years earlier.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Ward rejoined the Army, this time as a commissioned officer in the Middlesex Regiment.

He also received the French Croix de Guerre (for the Battle of Kraevsky) and the Italian and Czechoslovakian equivalents, and was given the great honour of being made an ataman by his Cossack allies.

Ward was accused by General William S. Graves, the commander of U.S. forces in Siberia, of misrepresenting the facts surrounding the actions of U.S.

[10] He had developed an opposition to the mui tsai system, a form of Chinese child slavery then prevalent in Hong Kong, during his military service in the colony.

His vocal criticism in the House of Commons eventually contributed to the abolition of mui tsai in colonial Hong Kong.

[11] In 1929, Ward was defeated by Lady Cynthia Mosley, the Labour candidate, by a large margin, and decided to retire from politics.