Wilfrid Ward

Ward and his friend Baron Friedrich von Hügel have been described as "the two leading lay English Catholic thinkers of their generation".

In 1881, shortly before his planned ordination, Ward reconsidered, and joined the Inner Temple to take up a career in law.

The couple initially lived at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, then briefly at Hampstead, and then at Eastbourne in East Sussex, before settling in 1901 at Dorking in Surrey.

[8] In 1890 Ward was appointed examiner in Mental and Moral Philosophy to the Royal University of Ireland.

During his tenure, the journal published articles by G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Francis Thompson and other well-known writers.