OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 25

OBITUARY.

COLONEL WARD. C.I.E.

The Reading- Mercury of December 28 records the death of Colonel Henry Conslantine Evelyn Ward, late of the Indian Staff Corps, which took place, after a short illness, at his residence, Pachmarhi, Berkeley avenue, Reading, in his seventy-first year. He was the youngest son of the late Sir Henry George Ward, Governor of Madras, and Emily Elizabeth, daughter of the late Sir John Swinburne, Bart. He entered the Indian army in 1555, being posted to a Bengal Native Infantry regiment. In the suppression of the Indian Mutiny he served as a volunteer with the Artillery at the latter part of the siege and at the assault of Delhi in 1857, and in the Corps of Guides in Brigadier Shower's column in the Delhi district. He was mentioned in despatches and received the medal with clasp. During the campaigns on the north-west, frontier of India in 1858-1859 he ser»sd with the guides in the expedition under Sir S. Cotton on the j Eusofzai frontier and in that under Brigai dier-general Chamberlain against the Kabul Kheyl, and for ibe former had another medal with cla=p. He was aDpointed to the Bengal Staff Corps in 1861, a*id after serving in various capacities up to 1864 was appointed assistant commissioner of the Central Provinces, and in 1870 promoted to be deputy commissioner. He was afterwards Acting Inspector-general of Registration, additional commissioner in Kalahandi and special commissioner for the repression of dacoity in the Nerbudda division. He also served for some time under the Government of India as Minister of the Bhopal State, was appointed Commissioner of the I Nerbudda Division in 1889, and in 1892 i levelled to the military department. Colonel Ward, who had reached that rank in April, 18S5, was nominated a C.I.E. on New" Year's Day, 1888, and was placed on the unemployed supernumerary list in April, 1894. In 1663 Colonel Ward married Miss MaTy K. Worsley, daughter of the late Rev. J. Fisher Turner, by whom he had one son and four daughters. The late Colonel Ward was the youngest brother of ex-Judge Ward of this city. The deceased gentleman was a justice of the peace for Berks, and a. very regular attendant — when health permitted — at the Reading County Petty Sessions, and also at Quarter Sessions. He had also been for some years a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal Berks Friendly Society ; and his other public activities included membership for several years of the old Reading School Board, of which he for a time acted as chairman.