Edward Ward, 4th Viscount Bangor

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Edward Ward, 4th Viscount Bangor

DL (23 February 1827 – 14 September 1881),[1] styled The Honourable from September 1827 until 1837, was an Irish peer and Conservative
politician.

Born in

Deputy Lieutenant for County Down and in 1855, Ward was elected an Irish representative peer to the House of Lords.[5] Ward died at Brighton, unmarried but was rumoured to have had an out-of-wedlock son born in 1856 named Edward Terry Ward.[6] He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother Henry.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ The Honourable Harriet Margaret Maxwell (1805–1880), Viscountess Bangor by Edwin Long
  3. ^ a b Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 102.
  4. ^ "Ward, Edward, Viscount Bangor (WRT845E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ Debrett, John (1876). Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Titles of Courtesy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Dean & Son. p. 39.
  6. ^ "ThePeerage - Edward Ward, 4th Viscount Bangor". Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  7. ^ "Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - Ward Papers" (PDF). Retrieved 17 August 2009.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Edward Southwell Ward
Viscount Bangor
1837–1881
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Representative peer for Ireland
1855–1881
Succeeded by