Ebenezer Ward
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The Honourable Ebenezer Ward |
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| Member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly for Gumeracha | |
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In office 1870–1880 Serving with
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| Member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly for Burra | |
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In office 1881–1884 Serving with Ben Rounsevell |
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| Member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly for Frome | |
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In office 1884–1890 Serving with
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| Member of the South Australian Legislative Council for Northern District | |
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In office 1891–1900 |
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| Minister for Agriculture and Education | |
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In office 1875–1877 |
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4 September 1837 Mersey Island, Essex, England |
| Died | 8 October 1917 (aged 80) Perth, Western Australia |
| Resting place | Karrakatta Cemetery |
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| Children | two sons from first marriage, four sons and five daughters from second marriage |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Accidentally giving women the right to stand for parliament |
Ebenezer Ward (4 September 1837 – 8 October 1917) was an Australian politician and journalist. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1870 to 1880 and from 1881 to 1890, representing Gumeracha (1870-1880), Burra (1881-1884) and Frome (1884-1890). In 1890 he switched to the South Australian Legislative Council, where he represented Northern District until 1900. He was Minister for Agriculture and Education under James Boucaut from 1875 to 1876 and under John Colton from 1876 to 1877.
As a journalist, Ward variously worked for the Morning Post in England, the Melbourne Herald, Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle, and the Daily Telegraph in Adelaide, where he served a stint as editor. He subsequently established a series of regional newspapers: Southern Argus in Port Elliot, the City and Country, the Northern Argus in Clare, a newspaper at Gumeracha, and The Farmers' Messenger.
Ebenezer Ward was born the eldest son of the Rev. Joseph Ward, a member of an old English family, at Russalls, Mersey Island, Essex. He was educated at Dumpton Hall, a school established for the sons of Baptist ministers, near Ramsgate, Kent. It was intended that he joined the ministry but in 1849 he rebelled and decamped for London. He found work as a copy boy at a large printing office in Lincoln Inn Fields. It was during his short stay there that Ward acquired his appreciation of Shakespeare while checking proof sheets which they were printing for Routledge. He next worked for the Morning Post as a reader's boy at 15/ a week. He was promoted to reader, then reviser, and eventually a member of their reporting staff in the gallery of the House of Commons and became proficient in shorthand. He won the confidence of his employers, and at age eighteen he was working with the proprietor's son, Algernon Borthwick, with whom he maintained a long correspondence. Ward left the Morning Post in 1856 after inheriting some money, and returned to Essex for three years, living the life of a country squire.
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