Name	Role	Notes
Reginald Ball	Priest	Father Stephen, as he became known, together with his wife Grace, had long been supporters of Ward, when he was ordained shortly before Ward left England in 1946. This was done in order to ensure that those supporters who remained behind would have access to the services of the Church. He remained in charge of the Church of Christ the King in New Barnet till ill health forced his retirement shortly before his death in 1968.
William Martin Andrews	Priest	Father Anthony, as he became known was ordained by Ward to take charge of a small church at Bournemouth. After Ward's death he went to Cyprus to be consecrated Bishop by Chamberlain in 1951. Assisted by Father Stephen, he maintained the Orthodox Catholic Church in England in communion with Ward's successors Chamberlain and Strong until his death in 1978
Queen Mary	Museum Donor	Wife of King George V who took an interest in the Folk Park when it first opened in 1934, and donated a number of Victorian nicknacks soon afterwards. Although linked with Ward, she was actually closer to Ward's wife Jessie who, after the Queen died in 1953 spent some time with her on the Astral Plane.
Charles William Previte Orton	Fellow University Student	Poet and historian who was an associate of Ward's when both were at Cambridge. Previte (1877-1947) was reading History at St. John's College, when Ward was at Trinity College, and produced a volume of poems written between 1902-1906 or whch one, an eulogy to poetry was addressed to Ward. It begins; `Ward, whence comes poetry and whence romance? What is their charm upon us and the power Wherewith they hold us in dream-girdled trance'
Doris May Ball (Sister Ursula)	Member of Abbey	Eldest child of Father Stephen and Sister Grace, Sister Ursula joined the Abbey in 1940 and bore Ward his natural son John just before his death in 1949. Within the community she acted as organist and though now very frail, still remains one of its most beloved members at St Michaels, Caboolture.
Most Rev. Frederic E.J. Lloyd	Archbishop of American Catholic Church	Consecrated by Villatte in 1915, Lloyd succeeded him as Archbishop in 1920 and immediately began to reorganise the American Catholic Church. Among other things started what he called the Intecollegiate University for the training of clergy, and consecrated a number of new bishops. The most important of these were Archbishop Gregory Lines for the Province of the Pacific and Archbishop Churchill Sibley for the British Empire. It was SIbley who consecrated Ward, but he also held Lloyd himself in the highest regard.
John Masefield	Poet Laureate 1930 - 67	Ward probably first met Masefield through Orton, and seems to have developed a fairly close relationship with him in the 1920's, that continued even after Ward's call to prepare the way for the Coming of Christ in 1927. It may be no more than a coincidence, but Masefield's famous play "The Coming of Christ" was produced in 1928. Soon afterwards, Ward apparently submitted a couple of his hymns to Masefield for appraisal, before they were published in 1930. Shortly before her death in 1965, Jessie Ward described his reaction to John Cuffe. Referring to what is now hymn number 36 ("We sought Thee O God in the realms of Light"), she said:. "He said it was the most perfect example (of poetry) he had ever seen, the other hymn was pretty good, but that, he said, was perfect." Ward apparently remained in contact with Masefield until Ward left England in 1946.

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