He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won two junior scholarships in 1900 and the University gold medal in anatomy in 1901. He took the Conjoint qualification and the London MB with honours in medicine and forensic medicine in 1903; and won the Kirke scholarship and gold medal in 19

Born on 30 December 1877 at Garforth, near Leeds, Yorkshire, son of Sir John Ward and his wife, *née* Brambles. His father afterwards became Lord Mayor of Leeds. He was educated in Switzerland and at Clare College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos,