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Last Name Ward

Given Name Mary °

alt. Names M. W. ; Mary King / Hon. Mrs. W. ;

Marriage Henry William Crosbie Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor in 1854 ;

Children 8: 3 sons, 5 daughters ; Maxwell Ward 6th Viscount Bangor

Year born 1827 in Ballylin nr Ferbane, King's County, Offaly

Year died 1869

Place of death Birr, Parsonstown

Father's occupation landowner Reverend Henry King

Relatives Harriett Lloyd (mother) ; sisters; brother J.G. King Esq., cousin William Parsons 3rd Earl of Rosse

Education home schooling ; self-taught microscopist ;

Country of Activity Ireland

Worked for David Brewster (1781-1868): Life of Newton 1855 & On Structure Optical Phenomena of Glass; Sir Richard Owen; M Ward: Natterjack Toads Ireland 1864 & Sketches with Microscope 1857 & World of Wonders Microscope 1858 & Telescope Teachings 1859 & Microscopic Teachings

Patronage astronomer James South (1785-1867) ; Earl of Rosse ; Transactions royal Society Edinburgh 1864; British Museum: Intellectual Observer ;

Collaborators photographer Mary Rosse ;

Techniques astronomical drawing, microscopic drawing, painting, and watercolour ;

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Archival sources Castle Ward, County Down ;

Published sources Jackson: Dict. Bird Artists 1999: 482 ; Butler 2000: chapter 1 ; Offaly Historical Society 2007-2-9 ; Bernard Lightman: Victorian Popularizers of Science 2009: 104 & 139-142 & Depicting Nature in Shteir & Lightman 2006: 226 & 229-231 ;

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