William Ward (mayor)

William Ward (1807 – 20 July 1889) was a Victorian Mayor of the city of Oxford, in England.

Eleven children were born to them in this house between 1832 and 1847, all baptised at St Giles' Church nearby.

[1] In 1868, Ward was elected the first President of the newly formed Oxford Constitutional Association.

[1] Ward erected a drinking fountain on the site of the spring in Walton Well Road, with a plaque dated 1885.

[2][3] Ward died on 20 July 1889, aged 82 and was buried in the family vault at St Mary Magdalen's Church.

A view of the Oxford Canal in Jericho, Oxford , where William Ward undertook his coal business, with St Barnabas' Church , built on land given by Ward
The Walton Well Drinking Fountain , erected by Ward in 1885