Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor

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Edward Ward
7th Viscount Bangor
In office
1950–1993
Personal details
Born5 November 1905
Died8 May 1993
Parents
Occupationjournalist and author

Edward Henry Harold Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor (5 November 1905 – 8 May 1993), was an

Anglo-Irish
peer, journalist, war correspondent, and author. He worked under the name Edward Ward.

Early life

The son of Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor, by his marriage to Agnes Elizabeth Hamilton, third daughter of Dacre Hamilton, of Cornacassa, County Monaghan,[1] Ward was educated first at Wixenford,[2] then, like his father, at Harrow and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[1] His grandmother was the scientific illustrator Mary Ward, who died in the world's first motoring accident.

Career

Becoming a journalist, Ward went overseas as a

Battle of Sidi Rezegh.[4] He spent the rest of the Second World War as a prisoner of war in Italian and later German camps. On 31 March 1945, he was among those liberated by American forces from Oflag XII-B, a camp for officers near Limburg an der Lahn.[5]

After the war, Ward worked as a foreign correspondent around the world until 1960. He reported from Hungary during the 1956 uprising.

After making a Christmas broadcast from

Bishop Rock Lighthouse, he was marooned there for a month by rough seas.[3]

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 28 August 1961.[6] He published several books, including three volumes of autobiography.[5]

Bangor's obituary in The Independent called him "one of the very best of the BBC's war correspondents".[5]

Private life

In 1933, Ward married firstly Elizabeth Balfour, of Wrockwardine Hall, Wellington, Shropshire; she divorced him in 1937. The same year, he married secondly Mary Kathleen Middleton, of Shanghai; this marriage ended in divorce in 1947. That same year, he married thirdly Leila Mary Heaton, with whom he had one son, William Maxwell David Ward, before his third divorce in 1951. In 1951, he married lastly Marjorie Alice Simpson, formerly Banks (1915-1991), with whom he had a second son Edward and a daughter Sarah.[1][5]

In 1950, he succeeded his father as Viscount Bangor, a title in the peerage of Ireland.[1][5]

In 1991, his fourth wife committed suicide.

At the time of his death on 8 May 1993, Lord Bangor's address was 59, Cadogan Square, London SW1; and he was a member of the Savile and Garrick clubs.[1]

Books

  • Despatches from Finland: January–April 1940 (London: John Lane, 1940)
  • Give Me Air (London: John Lane, 1946), about being a prisoner of war
  • Chinese Crackers (London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1947)
  • Europe on Record (London: Wingate, 1950), with Marjorie Ward
  • The US and Us (1951), with Marjorie Ward
  • Danger is Their Business (London: Cassell, 1955), with Marjorie Ward
  • The New Eldorado: Venezuela (London: Hale, 1957)
  • Oil is Where They Find It (London: Harrap, 1959)
  • Sahara Story (New York: Norton, 1962)
  • Number One Boy (London: Michael Joseph, 1969)
  • I've Lived like a Lord (London: Michael Joseph, 1970)

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-7136-4496-6
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  2. ^ Edward Ward, Number One Boy (1969), p. 17
  3. ^ a b "Edward Ward: The BBC man who was captured by Rommel". BBC Online. 9 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  4. ^ Harold Denny (of the 'New York Times'), When Edward Ward, BBC War Correspondent, was Captured, in London Calling magazine, issues 144-176, June 1942, p. 17
  5. ^ a b c d e Obituary: Edward Ward dated 10 May 1993 at independent.co.uk, accessed 4 September 2013
  6. ^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Edward Ward". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Bangor
1950–1993 		Succeeded by
William Maxwell David Ward
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