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for one of his mistresses, the writer
Frances Ellen Talbot, better known under her pseudonym Thorpe Talbot (1851–1923). The house was held in the name of a farmer who Ward knew, and within a month of his wife's death, Ward's name was added to the
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and served as the first president of the New
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Ward was a tall man of strong build. He stood 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and weighed 17 stone (110 kg). In the 1880s and 1890s, the Wards had a house in the
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a man of infamous private character, and has not the decency to conceal it
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died in Christchurch on 31 May 1896 and was buried at Burwood Cemetery.
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being called to the Bar in 1853. His grandfathers were
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A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : M–Addenda
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