Edward Ward, 4th Viscount Bangor DL (23 February 1827 – 14 September 1881), styled The Honourable from September 1827 until 1837, was an Irish peer and

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, he was the son of Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor and his wife Harriet Margaret Maxwell, second daughter of

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. In 1837, aged only ten, Ward succeeded his father as viscount. He was educated at

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and went then to

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. He served as Deputy Lieutenant for County Down and in 1855, Ward was elected a representative peer to the

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. Ward died at Brighton, unmarried but was rumoured to have had an out-of-wedlock son born in 1856 named Edward Terry Ward. He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother

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1827 births 1881 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Deputy Lieutenants of Down Irish representative peers People educated at Eton College Edward Edward 4 {{Ireland-viscount-stub