10 Facts About Ned Ward

Ned Ward, known as Edward Ward, was a satirical writer and publican in the late 17th and early 18th century in London.

Ned Ward extended some of these works into periodicals, such as The Weekly Comedy, as it is Dayly Acted at most Coffee-Houses in London in 1699.

Ned Ward was involved in political controversy from as early as 1698.

Ned Ward was publican at the King's Head Tavern, next to Gray's Inn, London, from 1699.

Between late 1729 and late 1730, Ned Ward left the Bacchus for the British Coffee House in Fullwood's Rents near Gray's Inn.

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Ned Ward's grave is lost and not listed on the Burdett-Coutts Memorial among the important graves there.

Ned Ward drew on his own experiences in Port Royal to develop the "trip format", which he continued to use in the first decade of his prominence.

Ned Ward had travelled to Jamaica in the hope of escaping the poverty he experienced in London, but found things no more encouraging in the New World than the Old.

Some such satires were expanded into periodicals, allowing for extended commentary on specific human and individual vices that Ned Ward experienced personally, particularly within London and in his own taverns.

In 1730 in the wake of the success of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, Ned Ward wrote the libretto for a similarly-themed ballad opera The Prisoner's Opera which was performed at Sadler's Wells.