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Mary Ward, IBVM CJ (23 January 1585 – 30 January 1645) [1] was an English Catholic religious sister whose activities led to the founding of the Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Sisters of Loreto. There is now a network of around 200 Mary Ward schools worldwide. [2]
Mary Lorraine Ward [4] (6 March 1915 – 19 July 2021), also known as Mary Ward Breheny, [5] was an Australian actress of stage, television, and film and radio ...
Mary Ward (née King; 27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869) was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. [1] She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins.
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920), British activist and novelist, known by her married name of Mrs Humphry Ward Mary Behrendsen Ward (1894–1985), American poet and fiction writer Mary Ward Centre , an adult education college located in London named for the above Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Ward, foundress. Mary Ward was a member of a Roman Catholic family during the period of persecution of Catholics in Tudor England. Originally attempting a life of contemplation in the Spanish Netherlands, she became convinced that she was called to serve in a more active way, especially in her native country. She saw education as the best ...
Mary Augusta Ward CBE (née Arnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. [1] She worked to improve education for the poor setting up a Settlement in London and in 1908 she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League.
The book Mary Ward by Ida Friederike Görres (née von Coudenhove) presents the life of Catholic nun Venerable Mary Ward (1585 –1645). It was originally published in German in 1932 by Verlag Anton Pustet under the title Mary Ward: Eine Heldenlegende and republished in 1952 by Verlag Herder under the title Das grosse Spiel der Maria Ward .
Mary Ellen Holloway Amos Ward, BEM (4 April 1884 – 29 March 1972) was an English nurse to the boat people on the waterways. She was a significant figure in the history of the British canal system .