Bernard Mordaunt Ward
Bernard Mordaunt Ward ( 20 January 1893 – 12 October 1945 ) was a British author and third-generation soldier most noted for his support of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship and writing the first documentary biography of Edward de Vere , 17th Earl of Oxford . 
<triplet> Bernard Mordaunt Ward <subj> 20 January 1893 <obj> date of birth <subj> 12 October 1945 <obj> date of death