Samuel Ward (scholar)

Samuel Ward (scholar)

:"For others with this name, see Samuel Ward (disambiguation)."----Samuel Ward (born in Haverhill, Suffolk in 1577— died 1639) was an English academic and a master at the University of Cambridge. He attended Christ's College, Cambridge as a student, and was ultimately Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was a Puritan who wrote extensively on doctrinal issues.

Ward was one of the scholars involved with the translation and preparation of the King James version of the Bible. He served in the "Second Cambridge Company" charged with translating the Apocrypha.

Ward also designed and made the Double Deliverance- a woodcut

Ward was the eldest of three brothers, all Puritans. One brother was Nathaniel Ward, whose book "The Body of Liberties" directly influenced to the first United States Constitution.

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