William Ward (cricketer, born 1787)

Born at Highbury Place, Islington, 24 July 1787, he was the second son of George Ward (died 1829), of Northwood Park, Cowes, a London merchant and large landowner in the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, by his wife Mary (died 1813), daughter of Henry Sampson Woodfall.

[1] On 9 June 1826, he became Member of Parliament in the Tory interest for the City of London,[3] and in 1830 at the request of the Duke of Wellington, he acted as chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the East India Company, before the opening of the China trade.

His first-class career began in the 1810 English cricket season but it was interrupted by the Napoleonic War until 1816.

John Nyren dedicated his famous book The Young Cricketer's Tutor to Ward when it appeared in 1833.

In 1847 Ward published Remarks on the Monetary Legislation of Great Britain (London), in which he condemned the Coinage Act 1816, which established an exclusive gold standard, and called for a bi-metallic currency.