Mr Ward fled to north Africa where he became a Barbary pirate.<\/p>\n
“He attacked just about everything, regardless,” Mr Tonge said.<\/p>\n
The pirate is believed to have eventually lived a life of luxury in Tunis.<\/p>\n
Mr Tonge added: “He was extremely well-off. He did try to get a pardon from England, but he had such a disreputable reputation and life.<\/p>\n
“Because he was still raiding when peace was declared with Spain, he was seen as a traitor to the country.”<\/p>\n
But could Mr Ward really be the inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow?<\/p>\n
“He was one of the most famous pirates of his time. He seemed to be the ideal figure to emulate,” Mr Tonge said.<\/p>\n
“He was surrounded by his riches and his parrot collection.”<\/p>\n
Mr Tonge said that Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow was “more sophisticated and swarthier”.<\/p>\n
“The description doesn’t fit with Jack Ward,” he added.<\/p>\n
“But it’s Hollywood and it’s fantasy and superb entertainment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Ward fled to north Africa where he became a Barbary pirate. “He attacked just about everything, regardless,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-194559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}