Ward was born at Landbeach, Cambridgeshire, in 1534, was educated at Eton, whence he was elected scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 13 August 1550.
303), appoint ‘Willielmus Warde’ and William Burton ‘readers in medicine or the medical art’ in the university of Cambridge, with a stipend of 40l.
Ward is mentioned again in 1601 in a list of Cambridge officials as queen's professor of physic.
The list occurs at the end of a ‘Project for the Government of the University of Cambridge’ (Cal.
It is probably in virtue of his official post at Cambridge that Ward is spoken of as physician to Queen Elizabeth and King James.