Robert Plumer Ward
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Robert Plumer Ward was an English barrister, politician, and novelist. George Canning said that his law books were as pleasant as novels, and his novels as dull as law books.
1850 portrait of Ward
Robert Plumer Ward as a young man
Clerk of the Ordnance
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The Clerk of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance from its constitution in 1597. He was responsible for the correspondence and for
Robert Plumer Ward
…MP for Haslemere from 1807 to 1823. Turning down an offer of a Treasury lordship, Ward remained at the Admiralty till June 1811, when he was appointed Clerk of the Ordnance. He served in this office under Mulgrave, who was head of the department, till 1823. He made a lengthy report on the state of the ordnance department…
Board of Ordnance Arms preserved on a gun tampion in Gibraltar