Ned Ward
Ned Ward, also known as Edward Ward ( * 1660 or 1667 in Oxfordshire, England; † June 20, 1731 in London, England ) was an English satirist, writer and publican in the late 17th and early 18th century.
Life
About the origin and Youth Wards there is little information. Theophilus Cibber calls him a man of humble origin, who never enjoyed a regular education. In 1691, he published in London his first book, in which he laments his poverty and the fact that it can receive any proceeds from his writing. With a book about his trip to the town of Port Royal in the English colony of Jamaica in the West Indies in 1698 he had a hit. There was a report A Trip to New England on a journey that he himself had never done before.
His biggest success in the then London literary world was the work of The London Spy, which was released in November 1698 issued 18 monthly parts. His later printed descriptions of the conditions in London and the England of his time were marketed in each case as the author of the " London Spy " is written.
Political commitment
Since 1698 Ward championed the interests of the so-called High Church one within the Anglican Church of England. In the years 1705 to 1707 published 24 monthly publications of his work Hudibras Redivivus, in which he, the ruling class in England, the Whigs, attack. Then he was accused, among other things, to have the Queen, Queen Anne offended and so was imprisoned twice in 1706 and even asked twice in London at the pillory, once at the Royal Exchange and again at Charing Cross.
Publican
With the accession of George I. Ward's comments were mild to political issues. His works dealt more with his personal experiences as a publican, and with descriptions of London and other cities in England. These were widespread and were even read in the English colonies in North America, so that the influential Boston Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather in 1726 warned against reading this pestilence.
From 1717 to 1730 he ran the Bacchus Tavern in London's Moorfields. At the turn of 1729/1730 he took over The British Coffee House in Fullwood 's Rents near Gray 's Inn.
Private
It is not certain whether Ward had ever been married according to the law. However, an obituary contains the names of his wife and children. His remains were interred in the cemetery of St. Pancras in Middlesex.