Is said to have been a witness (he could not have been a qualified medical witness) at the trial in 1824 of John Thurtell (1794-1824), who murdered William Weare, solicitor, with whom he had gambled, at Gibbs Hill, Lane Road, Radlett, on the St Albans Road, and threw the body into a swamp two miles away; but Ward is not mentioned as a witness in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. He practised at Southgate, Middlesex, where he was District Medical Officer of the Edmonton Union. He died at Southgate, on October 18th, 1865.