WARD
Parents
W WARD = Teresa Mary BURGE/CONNOLLY
Teresa Mary BURGE/CONNOLLY:
Born 1881, St Pancras
teacher
Children
Barbara, Baroness Jackson, WARD = Robert JACKSON > Family
Barbara, Baroness Jackson, WARD:
Born 23 May 1914, York
Died 31 May 1981, Lodsworth
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson
born May 23, 1914, York, Eng.
died May 31, 1981, Lodsworth
British economist and writer.
After studying economics at the University of Oxford, she became a writer and editor at The Economist (from 1939). She married Robert Jackson in 1950. She was an influential adviser to the Vatican, the UN, and the World Bank, and she wrote numerous articles and books on the worldwide threat from poverty among less-developed countries (she advocated the transfer of wealth from rich to poor countries) and the importance of conservation; her books, which reached a wide audience, included The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1962), Spaceship Earth (1966), Only One Earth (1972), and Progress for a Small Planet (1980).
John WARD = Valya > Family
Monica WARD = David JENKINS > Family