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Ebenezer Ward (4 September 1837 – 8 October 1917) was a South Australian politician who had a career in journalism in both Victoria and South Australia. ==History== 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.〔 〕 In 1859 Ward migrated to Australia in the clipper ''The British Trident'', (among fellow-passengers were South Australian pastoralist Peter Waite and Sir Frederick Pottinger). On arrival in Melbourne in June 1859, he was recruited by George Collins Levey〔 initially as a reader then parliamentary reporter for the Melbourne Herald. He then worked on a Government contract collecting agricultural statistics in the Victorian interior. While touring the Victoria's important farming centres, he contributed his observations in The Herald and its associated sporting and agricultural journal Bell's Life. It was also during this time that he was first urged to stand for Parliament.〔 In 1860 Ward holidayed in Adelaide in company with G. V. Brooke, the famous tragedian, and on returning to Melbourne joined the ''Age''. The following year he was offered and accepted the leadership of the Hansard staff of the ''Adelaide Advertiser'' (the incumbent, R. S. Smythe, was leaving to become a theatrical entrepreneur and recommended Ward as his successor), commencing in June 1861. His first task was to report the budget speech of the Hon. Thomas Reynolds. His reputation as a stenographer was secured.〔 While with the ''Advertiser'' he visited and described the orchards and vineyards of South Australia. His articles were reprinted in pamphlet form, and 2000 copies were purchased by the Government for free distribution at the Great Exhibition in London in 1862. He returned to Victoria the next year to write a series of articles for the "Age".〔 Two years later Ward joined Frederick Sinnett's ''Telegraph'' as associate editor.〔 In 1864, following passage of the Northern Territory Settlers Act, he was appointed by the South Australian Government as clerk-in-charge, accountant and postmaster of Boyle Travers Finniss's expedition to colonise the Northern Territory.〔 While the expedition was being organised he visited Melbourne and rejoined the ''Age'' staff, contributing special articles on the vineyards of Victoria. Finniss's party sailed in April 1864, but broke up in a flurry of jealousies, vindictiveness and personal recriminations and Ward was one of those who returned to Adelaide in January 1865 after being dismissed by Finniss for insubordination.〔J. B. Hirst, ('Ward, Ebenezer (1837–1917)' ), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 10 November 2012〕 He rejoined the ''Telegraph'' as editor, but was soon given the ultimatum of either discontinuing his Hansard work or leaving the ''Telegraph''. He chose the latter, and continued with Hansard untiil 1868.〔 In 1865 he established the ''Southern Argus'' in Port Elliot,〔 soon to move to Strathalbyn.〔 Six months later he rejoined the ''Telegraph'' and took up his old position as Government shorthand writer. He founded several more newspapers during the next ten years: the ''City and Country'', the ''Northern Argus'' in Clare and he once had a paper at Gumeracha. He also owned ''The Farmers' Messenger'', which according to reports either failed to attract a readership〔 or was very popular with farmers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ebenezer Ward」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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