Pike Ward

Ward was awarded the Grand Cross of the Icelandic Falcon by King Christian X of Denmark in 1936, in recognition of his contribution to the nation's fishing industry and economy.

[1] Pike Ward was born into a family of ship brokers in Teignmouth in the South West of England.

Ward worked in Iceland between 1891 and the outbreak of the First World War.

He was the first person to run a trawler from an Icelandic port - the Utopia at Hafnarfjörður, but the venture was not a success.

[2] "Pike Ward's Iceland Photographs, objects and cuttings from the collection of an English fish merchant", an exhibition on Ward's time in Iceland opened in the National Museum of Iceland in the autumn of 2019 and was open till the beginning of 2020.