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- South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839-1900)Tuesday 12 April 1892, Page 3Sudden Death of Mr. Edward Ward. - Mr. Edward Ward, a sharebroker and amember of the Stock Exchange of South Australia, fell dead in front ofCowstock, Chambers, King William-street, at about 10 o'clock on Wednesday, March 30. The late Mr. Ward was an able advocate of, free trade principles, and was one of the founders of the Free Trade League with Messrs. J. H. Symon, J. Medway Day, and others. He acted as its Secretary, and frequently contributed correspondence to the S. A. Register bearing on the subject of free trade. As a member of the Kent Town Weslyan Church he took much interest in affairs pertaining to Methodism. Mr. Ward was born at Reeth, Yorkshire, in 1827, and went to reside in Bolton, Lancashire, when about fourteen years of age. During his residence in that town he went into business as a draper. He came out to South Australia in August, 1880. Priorto becoming a sharebroker he was a commercial traveller for a well-known Adelaide firm. No inquest was held, a medical certificate having been obtained to the effect that he succumbed to an attack of heart disease.
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