London on Dec. 27, 1930, the younger of two children of Francis Joseph Sheed, who emigrated from Australia with a background in law to become a street-corner evangelist, and Maisie Ward, a fellow Catholic Revivalist and author who was eight years her husband's senior, a descendant of a proud English Catholic family and, at six feet tall, a striking figure on the streets of London. Together they founded Sheed & Ward (now an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield), which, besides publishing work by Chesterton, published the Catholic social worker Dorothy Day, the historian Hilaire Belloc and the poet Robert Lowell.
from The New York Times: Wilfrid Sheed, Writer of Gentle Wit, Dies at 80
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