John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (6 March 1704 – 6 May 1774), known as John Ward until 1740 and as the 6th Baron Ward from 1740 to 1763, was a British Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1727 to 1734.

Life

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. He inherited the Willingsworth estate and the rest of the manor of

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on the death of his father in 1720, and the

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estates on the death of his cousin William Ward, 5th Baron Ward in 1740. He was returned to Parliament for

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in 1727, a seat he held until 1734. In 1740 he succeeded his second cousin as the sixth Baron Ward and entered the

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. He was further honoured in 1763 when he was created 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward, of Dudley in the County of Worcester.

Marriage and issue

Ward married firstly Anna Maria, daughter of Charles Bourchier, in 1723. He married secondly Mary, daughter of John Carver, in 1745. There were children from both marriages. Ward died in May 1774, aged 70, and was succeeded by his son from his first marriage,

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. His son from his second marriage,

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(who succeeded in the viscountcy in 1788), was the father of John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, Foreign Secretary from 1827 to 1828. Mary, Viscountess Dudley and Ward, survived her husband by eight years and died in 1782.

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *''Burkes Peerage'' (1939 edition). {{DEFAULTSORT:Dudley And Ward, John Ward, 1st Viscount 1704 births 1774 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Ward, John British MPs 1727–1734

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