Arnold Ward

Arnold Sandwith Ward (1876–1950) was an English journalist and Conservative Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (UK() (MP) for the constituency of Watford between 1910 and 1918.

Ward was the son of Humphry "Thomas" Ward, a fellow and tutor of Brasenose College and Mary Augusta Ward, a popular author; grandson of Tom Arnold; greatgrandson of Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.

While at Oxford he played one first-class cricket match for the University side as a lower-order right-handed batsman and medium-pace right-arm bowler; he also played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire between 1896 and 1905.

After working as a special correspondent for the Times in Egypt, the Sudan and India from 1899 to 1902, and as a solicitor, he was elected to parliament in 1910.

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