Hugh Ward

Hugh Kingsley Ward MC (17 September 1887 – 22 November 1972) was an Australian bacteriologist. He was Bosch Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Sydney from 1935 to 1952. He was an Australian national champion rower who competed for Australasia at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Personal Ward was born at Petersham, New South Wales on 17 September 1887. In 1910, he stroked the New South Wales crew which won the men's eight at the annual Australian Interstate Regatta.

After he went up to Oxford, Ward rowed for New College against the Sydney Rowing Club at the 1912 Henley Royal Regatta. He rowed for Oxford University in 1913 and 1914.

In 1967, the University of Sydney opened the HK Ward Gymnasium.

Military Ward was appointed lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps Special Reserve, on 5 August 1914. In 1916, he was wounded in France and that year was awarded the Military Cross for attending to wounded men in the battlefield. In June 1917, Ward was taken as a prisoner at Nieuwpoort, Belgium.

Medical career In 1911, Ward was a Resident Medical Officer at Sydney Hospital. In 1935, he returned to Sydney. He was Bosch Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Sydney until 1952. He is said to have inspired leading medical scientists Donald Metcalf, Gustav Nossal and Jacques Miller. From 1952 to 1969, he was a medical officer with the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service.