Dr Stephen Ward ( - 3 August 1963), the son of Canon Arthur Evelyn Ward, Canon of Rochester Cathedral, was a fashionable London osteopath and talented portrait artist. Central player in the 1963 Profumo affair. Jump to: navigation, search August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search A canon (from the Latin canonicus and Greek κανωνικωσ relating to a rule) is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to a rule (canon). ... Rochester Cathedral is a Norman church in Rochester, Kent. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Jump to: navigation, search Roman-Egyptian funeral portrait of a young boy A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. ... Jump to: navigation, search Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in the United Kingdom. ...

Ward qualified to practice as an osteopath in Missouri, USA. In 1949 he married Patricia Mary Baines. They later divorced. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Show Me State Other U.S. States Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City (largest metropolitan area is Saint Louis) Governor Matt Blunt (R) Senators Kit Bond (R) Jim Talent (R) Official languages English Area 69,709 mi²; 180,693 km² (21st)  - Land... Jump to: navigation, search 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

Something of a social butterfly, Ward appeared to survive on the largesse and patronage of the rich and powerful of his time. “I know a lot of very important people and am often received in some of the most famous homes in the country,” said Ward, “Sir Winston Churchill and many leading politicians have been among my patients”. As a portrait artist, he had members of the Royal Family and politicians sit for him. “Prince Philip, The Duke and Duchess of Kent and Lord Snowden have been among my sitters.” Jump to: navigation, search The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... In semantics, the patient is the passive part of a process. ... Jump to: navigation, search Members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony The British Royal Family is a group of people closely related to the British monarch. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Duke of Edinburgh The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO, PC, (Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark) (born 10 June 1921) is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, KG, GCMG, GCVO (Edward George Nicholas Patrick Windsor) (born 9 October 1935), is a member of the British Royal Family, a grandchild of King George V. He has held the title of Duke of Kent since 1942. ... Her Royal Highness Princess Edward, Duchess of Kent (Katharine Lucy Mary Windsor, formerly Worsley), styled HRH The Duchess of Kent, is a member of the British Royal Family the wife of HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, a grandson of King George V and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. The... Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (July 18, 1864 - May 15, 1937) was a British politician, and the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer. ...

Ward also had an interest in young girls of humble origin. “I like pretty girls,” he is reported as saying at the time of his trial. “I am sensitive to their needs and the stresses of modern living.” Ward introduced these pretty girls to many establishment figures in Britain during the 1950s and early 60s. Ward introduced Christine Keeler, then a feisty, but impressionable, teenager, into a world which she had never before encountered, which was peopled with the rich and famous, aristocratic, charming and powerful men, all eager to meet her and take her out. Keeler, and later Mandy Rice-Davies, moved into Ward’s Wimpole Mews flat. The relationship was platonic with Keeler, but not so with Rice-Davies, to whom Ward at one time proposed marriage. The term establishment has several meanings: An establishment is a place of business or residence, or the founding of such a place or business. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the... Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Jump to: navigation, search Lewis Morleys photoshoot was one of the most iconic of the 1960s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mandy Rice-Davies, born October 1, 1944, is famous mainly for her minor role in the Profumo affair which discredited the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan in 1963. ... Jump to: navigation, search Platonic love in its modern sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. ...

In July 1961, Ward introduced Keeler to John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by Viscount Astor. Profumo entered into an affair with Keeler, not suspecting that she was also sleeping with Yevgeny Ivanov, a naval attaché at the embassy of the Soviet Union. Ward was in fact cooperating with MI5 to entrap Ivanov, which led to Profumo's affair becoming known quickly in establishment circles, but would not save Ward. Rumours about the affair became public in 1962. Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... John Dennis Profumo (born January 30, 1915), often called Jack Profumo, was the British Conservative cabinet minister whose indiscretions effectively discredited the government in 1963, before its defeat in 1964. ... The position of Secretary of State for War, commonly called War Secretary, a British cabinet-level position, first applied to Henry Dundas (appointed in 1794). ... Cliveden is a mansion in Berkshire (though until the county borders changed in 1974 it was in Buckinghamshire) with an intriguing history. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... William Waldorf Astor, (August 13, 1907 - March 7, 1966), was a businessman and politician and a member of the prominent Astor family. ... A military attaché is a military expert who is part of a diplomatic mission. ... Jump to: navigation, search Current MI5 headquarters in Thames House, London MI5, officially called the Security Service, is one of the British secret service agencies. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In the fallout of the Profumo scandal Ward was arrested in June 1963 in Watford and taken to Marylebone Lane police station. He was charged: ‘That he, being a man, did on divers dates between January 1961 and 8 June 1963, knowingly live wholly or in part on the earning of prostitution at 17 Wimpole Mews, contrary to section 30 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956.’ Other charges were to follow and he was put on trial. MI5 denied that Ward had informed them of the affair soon after it began. The trial exposed Ward and his social circle to the full glare of the media, neatly distracting from the political and diplomatic scandal. Rumours began to spread of an international callgirl ring involving British and US politicians and celebrities. The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in the United Kingdom. ... Watford is a town and district (styled as borough due to the historical charter granted by Henry VIII) just to the north-west of London. ... Marylebone (sometimes written St. ... Jump to: navigation, search June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Ward committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping tablets on the very last day of the trial. He was in a coma when the jury reached their guilty verdict, and he died after three days. shortly after his death, a pornographer named Freddie Reid mounted an exhibition of Ward's pictures in London, which was alleged to include compromising pictures of well-known individuals. However, before the public viewing, Reid held a private viewing and sold many of the pictures before they could be made public [[1]]. Jump to: navigation, search Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

It is claimed that Dr. Ward was the scapegoat in the scandal, but Profumo was forced to resign and the Conservative government lost the next election to Harold Wilson’s Labour Party. Jump to: navigation, search The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the British politician. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...

In her 2001 autobiography, Keeler claimed, without supporting evidence, that the MI5 chief of the time, Sir Roger Hollis, was a Soviet spy and that Stephen Ward ran a spy ring which included Hollis and Sir Anthony Blunt. Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ... Sir Roger Hollis (1905 - 1973) journalist, and head of MI5. ... Anthony Frederick Blunt (September 26, 1907 - March 26, 1983) was an English art historian and the Fourth Man of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ...

Stephen Ward was played by John Hurt in Scandal, a 1989 film about the Profumo affair. Jump to: navigation, search John Hurt (Mississippi John Hurt is an early American folk and country blues singer, 1893-1966) John Vincent Hurt CBE (born January 22, 1940) is a British actor. ... Scandal (1989) is a dramatic movie starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt, written by Michael Thomas and directed by Michael Caton-Jones. ... See also: 1988 in film, other events of 1989, 1990 in film, list of years in film. // Events Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. ... Jump to: navigation, search Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in the United Kingdom. ...

External links

• BBC Video of news of Ward's arrest
• Files of Operation Bowtie, FBI investigation into Profumo affair.
• Sketch portrait of Christine Keeler by Stephen Ward at the National Portrait Gallery