William Gibson Ward FRHistS (1819 – 18 October 1882) was an English activist for vegetarianism, anti-vivisection and anti-vaccination.

[1]: 16  Ward became a vegetarian at the age of 30, and also abstained from alcohol and tobacco;[1]: 16  additionally, he was opposed to vaccination and vivisection.

[4] In 1874, Ward, Isaac Pitman, John Davie and Francis William Newman were described as "four leading vegetarians" in England.

In 1876, it was reported that Ward was charged at the Birmingham Police Court with "feloniously and maliciously libelling Henry Taylor, of Leamington Spa" by publishing two defamatory letters.

"[8] Ward died on 18 October 1882,[9] at the age of 63, due to tuberculosis at his residence, Perriston Towers, in Ross.