William Henry Ward, junior [also known as William Ward] was born in Handsworth, Staffordshire, England in 1878 [or 1879 - sources differ] and was articled to his father, William Henry Ward, senior (1844-1917) in Birmingham. He also attended Birmingham School of Art. He commenced practice in Birmingham in 1904 in partnership with his father.
William Henry Ward, senior retired in 1914 leaving the business, but soon retuned to the practice when his son was called up for military service with the outbreak of World War One that year.
William Henry Ward, senior died in 1917 and following the war William Henry Ward, junior continued the practice. By 1928 he was a partner in the Birmingham firm Martin & Martin and W. H. Ward.
He was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1932.
His address was given as 30 Paradise Street, Birmingham and 65, Sandon Road, Edgbaston in 1911 and 195; and 106 Colmore Row, Birmingham in 1923 and 1935, He was active as an architect until at least the mid-1930s.
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Workhouse and Infirmary, Brentford Union; Infirmary and Offices, Stockport Union; Workhouse and Infirmary, Solihull Union; Infirmary, Alcoster Union; Solihull and Menden Isolation Hospital; Hospital, Little Bromwich; Sanatorium, Yardley, and Sanatorium, Cheltenham, for Birmingham Corporation; Sanatorium, Chesterfield; Dispensary and School Clinic, Chesterfield, Chinley, and Ilkeston, and Sanatorium for Intermediate Phthisis Cases, Penmore, for Derbyshire C.C.; Summer Hill Receiving Home; Western Road Laundry, test block, vagrant block, and kitchen, for Birmingham Union; other works at Dudley Road Infirmary, Shenley Cottage Homes, and Erdington Workhouse, for Birmingham Union. [Siurce: Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z.
Hartland, Stephen. ‘William Henry Ward’ in Birmingham’s Victorian and Edwardian Architects, edited by Phillada Ballard. Wetherby: Oblong Creative Ltd. for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society, 2009 pp. 253-274
Who's Who in Architecture 1926, Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1926. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001