WARD
,
JOHN
(
1856
-
1922
),
museum official, and antiquary
;
b.
Feb. 1856
at
Derby
. He started life as a
chemist
, but in
1893
was appointed
curator
of the
Cardiff municipal museum
. He concentrated upon
collecting and preserving material of Welsh interest
, as a result of which the name of the museum was changed to ‘
The Welsh Museum of Natural History, Arts and Antiquities
.’ In
1912
, when this museum was merged in the
National Museum of Wales
,
Ward
was appointed
keeper of the department of archaeology
. He
conducted excavations of historic sites
, notably the
Roman fort
at
Gelli-gaer, Glam.
, and the
S. Nicholas
(
Glam.
) chambered tumulus. He published
Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks
,
1911
, and
The Roman Era in Britain
,
1911
, and also many important papers on excavations and other matters in
Trans. Cardiff Nat. Soc.
,
Arch. Camb.
,
Arch. Jnl.
, and
Archaeologia
. In
1918
he received the honorary degree of
M.A.
from the
University of Wales
. He d.
18 June 1922
at
Derby
.
Author:
Archibald Henry Lee, M.A., Cardiff
