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Geneviève Ward
Dame Lucy Geneviève Teresa Ward, Countess de Guerbel, DBE (27 March 1837 – 18 August 1922) was an American-born British soprano and actress. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on her 84th birthday in 1921.〔Obituary, ''The Times'', 19 August 1922〕〔"The King and Miss Genevieve Ward: Honoured on Her 84th Birthday", ''The Times'', 28 March 1921〕〔Biography, ''Who Was Who''〕
==Life and career==
Ward was born in New York City to Colonel Samuel Ward, and his wife, Lucy. She was the granddaughter of Gideon Lee, a former mayor of New York City. At the age of three she accompanied her parents to Europe. She began to display a preference for the arts, and devoted herself by turns to the study of painting, sculpture, and music. By degrees, music absorbed her entirely, and her proficiency on the piano attracted attention.
On 10 November 1856, at age 19, she married Count Constantine de Guerbel. After a few years' stay in Europe, the family returned to New York, and soon afterward made the acquaintance of Henriette Sontag,〔Henry Wikoff (1863) ''Memoir of Ginevra Guerrabella'', T.J. Crowan: New York. 〕 who encouraged Ward to study singing. When the Ward family returned to Europe, Sontag gave Geneviève a letter of introduction to the composer Rossini. In 1862, after Ward's last role in ''La Traviata'', she retired due to vocal difficulties. Ward later became a stage actress, noted for dramatic roles. Ward became a British subject late in life. It is not clear if this required her to renounce her citizenship in the United States.〔(Reference to Ward as "AMERICAN-BRITON" and to her damehood ), books.google.com; accessed 31 March 2014.〕
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