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William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (27 March 1817 – 7 May 1885), known as The Lord Ward from 1835 to 1860, was a British landowner and benefactor.
In 1837 John William Ward’s Trustees bought Witley Court, and in the 1850s William Humble Ward 1st Earl of Dudley commissioned the architect Samuel Daukes to reshape it. Miranda Kaufmann suggests that ‘it is possible that the slave compensation money was recycled into the purchase of Witley Court’.
William Humble David Jeremy Ward, 5th Earl of Dudley (born 1947), also known as David Dudley, is the son of the 4th Earl and his wife Stella Carcano y Morra. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford , and was styled as Viscount Ednam between 1969 and 2013.
John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS (9 August 1781 – 6 March 1833), known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician and slave holder. He served as Foreign Secretary from 1827 to 1828.
Dec 4, 2019 · William Ward, first Earl of Dudley, died at Dudley House on May 7, 1885, aged 68. He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, William Humble Ward. Burial
William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, known as The Lord Ward from 1835 to 1860, was a British landowner and benefactor.
The Right Hon. the EARL OF DUDLEY, who died on the 7th May 1885, was born on March 27th, 1817, and was the son of the Rev. William Humble Ward, by Amelia, daughter of Mr. William Gooch Pillans, of Bracondale, Norwich. He was educated, first at Eton, and afterwards at Trinity College, Oxford.
