Sarah Ward (politician)

Sarah Adelaide Ward CBE (25 December 1895 – 9 April 1965) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Ward was born Sarah Adelaide Ainsworth on Meaford Farm in Stone, Staffordshire on 25 December 1895.

During the First World War, she was a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment in the 90th Staffordshire VADs.

[1] In the 1931 Conservative landslide, Ward was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Cannock constituency in Staffordshire, ousting the Labour incumbent, William Adamson with a majority of 4,665 votes.

During her time as a member of parliament, Ward focused on rural issues including death duties on estates, effects of cheaper food imports and the lack of investment and she supported levying of emergency duties on luxury foods.