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Born at Hereford in 1854, the eldest son of Francis 
Marshall Ward, Harry Marshall Ward was educated at 
Lincoln Cathedral School and a private schoo] at Nottingham. 
Inheriting considerable musical talent, the intention was 
that music should be his vocation. His real bent was other- 
wise. Natural science claimed him, and he went in 1874 
to London as a prospective school teacher of science to the 
classes at South Kensington, then only recently established 
under Huxley as an outcome of the rebirth of Biology that 
followed upon the appearance of Darwin’s Origin of Species, 
There is an element of romance in the circumstances that 
finally secured Ward for the career in which he acquired 
distinction. The fellow student who sat beside him in 
Huxley’s laboratory was a Mr L. A. Lucas. He was struck 
by the quality of the work Ward did, and urged him to go to 
Cambridge, then also awakening under the stimulus of freer 
conception of living things. The res angusta domi barred 
the way, however, ambitious though Ward was to follow out 
the suggestion. Mr Lucas, being a man of private fortune, 
provided anonymously the necessary funds, and thus it came 
about that Ward went to Cambridge, became a scholar of 
Christ’s College, took his degree from there in 1879, obtaining 
First Class Honours in Botany in the Natural Science Tripos. 
It was a life regret to Ward that his benefactor died early 
in the East, and before he could know the benefit to science 
that his benefaction had brought. 
During this period of education Ward worked for a time 
in the laboratories of Sachs at Wurzburg and of De Bary 
at Strassburg, and he also had preliminary training as a 
