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The English editor John Owen Ward (1919-2000) is best known for his work at New York’s Oxford University Press and his oversight of The Oxford Companion to Music. The materials in the John Owen Ward Papers span Ward's entire life, from his birth in Sydenham on 20 September 1919 to his death in New York on 31 December 2000. Ward's Baptism Certificate from Christ Church is seen here. It indicates that he was the child of John Dudley and Edith Mary Ward, and was baptized on 22 October 1919. |
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Ward was evidently quite a precocious youth. Below is a
sample page from a re-creation Ward made of the London Times from 1805,
reporting on the Battle of Trafalgar. The newspaper is complete with details
of Lord Nelson's death, and advertisements.
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| In 1932, at the age of thirteen, Ward even wrote a short play on science's efforts to predict the end of the world. The first page is seen here. |  |
