Edward Michael Ward (5 February 1789 – 12 September 1832)[1] was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.
He was the oldest son of Robert Ward and his first wife Sophia Frances Whaley, third daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley.[1] His younger brother James was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy.[1]
On 14 September 1815, he married Lady Matilda Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry,[4] and had by her a daughter and a son. Ward died at Brighton, aged 43, a year after his father[5] and only months after his younger brother Bernard.[6]
Referencesedit
^ abcLodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 41.
^ abcd"German Historical Institute London, Official Website - Edward Michael Ward". Retrieved 12 August 2009.
^ abcHaydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 80–82.
^Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 785.
^Sylvanus, Urban (1832). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: J. B. Nichols and Son. p. 389.
^Sylvanus, Urban (1832). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part I. London: J. B. Nichols and Son. p. 282.
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