A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ward, Robert Plumer

by John William Cousin

Ward, Robert Plumer (1765-1846). Novelist and politician, b. in London, ed. at Oxf., and called to the Bar 1790, held various political offices, and wrote some books on the law of nations; also three novels, Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement, full of prolix discussions; De Veve, or the Man of Independence, in which Canning is depicted under the character of Wentworth; and De Clifford, or the Constant Man.