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"Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth" Barbara Ward Hand Signed Card. Certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of. Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth.

May 1914 - 31 May 1981 was a British economist and writer interested in. The problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share. Their prosperity with the rest of the world and in the 1960s turned her.

Attention to environmental questions as well. She was an early advocate of. Became familiar and was well known as a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Ward was adviser to policy-makers in the UK, United States and elsewhere.

Barbara Ward was born in. On 23 May 1914, but her family soon moved to.

Her father was a solicitor with. Tendencies, while her mother was a. She attended a convent school. Before studying in Paris, first at a. Then for some months at the. Before going on to Germany. Had once planned to study modern languages, her interest in public affairs led to.

A degree course in politics, philosophy, and economics at. From which she graduated in 1935. She did post-graduate work on.

She began to help Jewish refugees. Support for any forthcoming UK. War effort, although she had initially been sympathetic to. And Ward as secretary, the.

Organisation to bring together Catholics and. It became a Roman Catholic group whose policies were promoted. Dawson edited, and for which Ward wrote regularly. Partly on the strength of her 1938 book.

She left the magazine in 1950 having risen to foreign. Editor, but continued to contribute articles throughout her life.

Writings on economic and foreign policy, her broadcasts on Christian values in. The Defence of the West. During this time she was also president of the Catholic Women's League.

And a popular panel member of the. In 1946 she became a. Governor of the BBC and of the. After the war, Ward was a supporter of the. Of a strong Europe, and of a.

In 1950, Barbara Ward married Australian. Their son Robert was born in 1956, the same year that his. Ward continued to use her own name professionally and was. Not widely known as Lady Jackson.

Over the next few years they lived in West. Africa and made various visits to India, and these experiences helped form. Ward's views on the need for Western nations to contribute to the economic. For the next two decades both husband and wife. Travelled a great deal, and eventually their marriage suffered from this. Legal separation was arranged in the early 1970s though Ward, as a Catholic.

In 1976 when she was given a. She used her estranged husband's surname for her title as Baroness Jackson of.

Ward had been a frequent public. Speaker since leaving university, and by the 1960s her lectures attracted. International respect; several lecture series, including some presented in. Canada, Ghana and India, were published in book form.

Amounts of time in the US, much of her work there funded by the. Gave her an honorary LittD. And until 1968 she was a Carnegie fellow there, living for part of each year in. A Foreign Honorary Member of the.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences. And acted as adviser to various influential policy makers.

Who welcomed her thoughts on. Projects despite her opposition to the. S thinking on development questions. Commission for justice and peace, and in 1971 was. The first woman ever to address a. One of her proposals was that. Richer countries should commit a certain proportion of their. Developing world, and she also spoke of the need for institutions to enable and. Manage both'aid and trade'. This was a practical as well as an ethical.

Concern: Ward believed such policies would encourage stability and peace.