John Sebastian Marlowe Ward
| John Sebastian Marlowe Ward | |
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John Ward standing next to his second wife Jessie about 1936
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| Born |
22 December 1885 Belize, Central America |
| Died | 2 July 1949 (aged 63) Limassol, Cyprus |
| Cause of death | Myocardial infarction |
| Resting place | Limassol |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (1908) |
| Occupation | priest |
| Title | Archbishop |
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor Caroline Lanchester (m. 1908; death 1926); Jessie Page (m. 1927; death 1965) |
| Partner(s) | Ursula Cuffe |
| Children | Blanche Ward; John Reginald Cuffe (b. 29 March 1949) |
| Parent(s) | Herbert Ward |
John Sebastian Marlow Ward (22 December 1885 – 1949) was an English author who published widely on the subject of Freemasonry and esotericism. He was also the leader of a Christian sect, and the founder of the Abbey Folk Park, the earliest example of a folk park in Britain.
He was born in what is now Belize. In 1908 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with honours in history, following in the footsteps of his father, Herbert Ward. who had also studied in history before entering the priesthood in the Anglican Church, as his father had done before him.
John Ward became a prolific and sometimes controversial writer on a wide variety of topics. He made contributions to the history of Freemasonry and other secret societies. He was also a psychic medium or spiritualist, a prominent churchman and is still seen by some as a mystic and modern-day prophet.
Born in British Honduras on 22 December 1885, Ward was the son of an Anglican clergyman, Herbert Marlow Ward. In 1888, the family returned to England, where Ward was educated at Colet Court, Merchant Taylors and Charterhouse. Proceeding to study History at Trinity Hall, a part of the University of Cambridge, he subsequently travelled around East Asia for many years, working as the headmaster of a Church of England school in Burma and then as the Principal Officer of Customs in Lower Burma. While working in the country, he spent much of his time studying Chinese secret societies, and with W.G. Stirling co-wrote a definitive book on the subject, The Hung Society: or the Society of Heaven and Earth, published in 1925 by the Baskerville Press.
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