ROBERT PLUMER WARD BIOGRAPHY
ROBERT PLUMER WARD BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
WARD, ROBERT PLUMER (1765-1846). —Novelist and politician, born in London, ed. at Oxf., and called to the Bar 1790, held various political offices, and wrote some books on the law of nations; also three novels, Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement , full of prolix discussions; De Vere, or the Man of Independence , in which Canning is depicted under the character of Wentworth; and De Clifford, or the Constant Man .