'Michael Ward (1643-1681) was an English 17th-century Anglican bishop and academic who served as the 12th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1675 to 1678.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 345.
Ward was the son of Richard Ward. He was born in Newport, Shropshire, England, and he was educated at Trinity College Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)", George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p833: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 Ward was Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin from 1670 to 1678 and its Provost from 1674 to 1678;Former Provosts, TCD Dean of Lismore from 1670 to 1678;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 1" Cotton, H p168: Dublin, Hodges, 1848 Archdeacon of Armagh from 1674 to 1678;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 2" Cotton, H p46: Dublin, Hodges, 1848 Bishop of Ossory from 1678 to 1680;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 2" Cotton, H pp281/2: Dublin, Hodges, 1848 and Derry from 1680;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 3" Cotton, H p319: Dublin, Hodges, 1848 until his death on 3 October 1681. His early death at 38 cut short a career which saw his meteoric rise to high office, fuelled by his great ambition.
His nephew, also Michael Ward, was an Irish politician and judge, and father of the first Viscount Bangor.W. N. Osborough, ‘Ward, Michael (1683–1759)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 3 Sept 2014
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