page_title: Henry George Ward
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Henry George Ward / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration from Mexico in 1827 by Henry George Ward.
context_page_description: Sir Henry George Ward GCMG was an English diplomat, politician, and colonial administrator.
context_section_description: Ward published two books about Mexico, illustrated by his wife. In Mexico in 1827 (1828) he tried to present a balanced view of the prospects for the country, formally independent from Spain in 1821. He gave an analysis of Mexico's mines, and was rather negative about the competence of William Bullock who had a mining concession from the Mexican government. He was also critical of attempts to finance pearl diving.
  In The First Step to a Poor Law for Ireland (1837), Ward argued that large-scale emigration, sponsored by the state, was a precondition for the introduction of the workhouse system in Ireland.
  A volume of his Speeches and Minutes in Ceylon appeared at Colombo in 1864.
caption: Puente del Rey, engraving from Mexico in 1827 (1828) by Henry George Ward, after Emily Elizabeth Ward.
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