Herbert Ward (sculptor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Herbert Ward (sculptor)

British artist

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1863

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 05-Aug-1919

Profession: painter, sculptor, journalist, explorer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Herbert Ward (11 January 1863, London – 5 August 1919, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer.
He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo Free State.
Ward later became a sculptor and lived in France.
He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, was twice mentioned in dispatches in World War I, was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.He left Mill Hill School at the age of 15 and travelled to New Zealand, spending the next three years in New Zealand and Australia.
He was "in turn kauri-gum digger, coal and gold miner, stock-rider, circus performer and sail-maker".
He then spent a year as a cadet with the British North Borneo Company, but a bout of malaria forced him to return to England.