Lives at: Hill House, Boundary Road.
Age: Late forties
Appearance: Around 5’ 10” tall, with short greying dark hair. Grey/Blue eyes
Richard has never lost the ability to have fun. His wife would dismiss that as never having grown up. He is a happy-go-lucky man but with a deeply ingrained sense of responsibility for his family.
Family: Wife: Marilyn
Daughter: Leonie Jane
Son: Andrew Richard
Brothers: Laurence and Andrew (deceased)
Sisters: Maureen and Monica
Background: Richard was born and brought up in a small council house in Woodbury, the eldest child of Eunice and Arnold Ward. His father died while Richard was in his early teens, leaving his mother to bring up four children on her own.
Educated at the local comprehensive, Richard was never keen on school or studying, preferring to hang around on street corners and earning a reputation for being a bit of a no-hoper. Meeting Marilyn gave him the impetus to pull his life together and he managed to gain enough qualifications to get an apprenticeship at a local engineering firm where he realised his full potential and at last found something that he was interested in.
Despite many objections from Marilyn’s family, they were married when she was just eighteen and Richard barely nineteen. Soon to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary, they proved those that said the marriage was doomed to failure, wrong.
Not naturally a risk taker, it was the desire to provide adequately for his wife and two small children, something that his in-laws would tell him constantly that he was failing to do, which persuaded him he should strike out on his own. Starting in a small way, his determination and hard work brought him the success in life very few thought he was capable of.
Currently: Manages his own large engineering firm in Woodbury and looking forward to the promise of early retirement thanks to some shrewd investments.
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RICHARD WARD
Owns an engineering firm in Woodbury
Married to Marilyn
