A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ward, William Robert (b)
WARD. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
William Robert Ward (b) entered the Navy, 12 June, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Isis 50, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, bearing the flag of Sir Erasmus Gower at Newfoundland. From May, 1807, until Feb. 1809 he served in the St. Albans 64, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen, in the North Sea and at the Cape of Good Hope; he was employed during the next 19 months at Portsmouth and in the Channel in the Royal William, flagship of Sir Roger Curtis, Sarpedon, Capt. Jas. Green, and Assistance 50, Commodore Robt. Mends; and from Sept. 1811 until Sept. 1813 he was stationed in the Baltic in the Pyramus 42, Capts. Chas. Dashwood and Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, Woodlark sloop, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, Ulysses 44, Capts. Wm. Fothergill and Thos. Browne, and Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart. In the Woodlark he acted as Lieutenant. From March, 1814, until Sept. 1815 he was employed in the West Indies and Downs in his former ship the Ulysses, and in the Argo 44, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, Shark sloop, Capt. Gore, as Acting-Lieutenant in the Mohawk, Capt, Henry Litchfield, and, as Lieutenant (commission dated 3 Aug. 1814), in the Argo again, bearing the flags of Rear-Admirals Brown and Scott. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.