Henry William Crosbie Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor DL, JP (26 July 1828 – 23 February 1911),[1] styled The Honourable from birth until 1881, was an Irish peer, Conservative politician and soldier.
Background[edit]
He was the second son of Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor and his wife Harriet Margaret Maxwell, second daughter of Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham.[2] Ward was educated at Rugby School and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[2] In 1881, he succeeded his older brother Edward as viscount.[3]
Career[edit]
Ward entered the British Army in 1846 and served in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot.[4] He fought in the Xhosa Wars and retired in 1854 as captain.[4] In 1886, Ward was elected an Irish representative peer to the House of Lords.[4] He was a Deputy Lieutenant of County Down and represented the county also as Justice of the Peace.[5]
Family[edit]
On 6 December 1854, he married the Irish entomologist, microscopist, and writer Mary King, a cousin of the astronomer and naturalist William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, and the pioneering photographer Mary Rosse. The couple had five daughters and three sons.[2] Mary Ward (nee King) died in 1869 in history's first car accident, when she was a passenger of an experimental steam car built by the Rosses in Parsonstown.
Henry Ward remarried Elizabeth Eccles, only daughter of Major Hugh Eccles of Cronroe on 8 April 1874.[6] His second marriage was childless.[2] Ward died, aged 82 at his residence Castle Ward and was buried at Ballycutter four days later.[5] He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his youngest and only surviving son Maxwell.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c d Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial families. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works. pp. 62–63.
- ^ "Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - Ward Papers" (PDF). Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ a b c d Who was Who 1897-1916. London: A. C. Black, Ltd. 1920. p. 38.
- ^ a b "ThePeerage - Henry William Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor". Retrieved 18 August 2009.
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1930). Armorial Families. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works. p. 2033.
