Edward Ward (30 April 1753 – November 1812), styled The Honourable from 1770, was an Irish politician. He was the third son of

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and his wife Lady Ann Bligh, daughter of

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and his wife

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. His brothers were

Nicholas Ward, 2nd Viscount Bangor Nicholas Ward, 2nd Viscount Bangor (5 December 1750 – 11 September 1827), styled The Honourable from 1770 until 1781, was an Irish politician and peer. He was the eldest son of Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor and his wife Lady Ann Bligh, daug ...

and Robert Ward. In 1785, he and his uncle

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petitioned the

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successfully to place Nicholas under disability. Ward entered the

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in 1776, sitting for Bangor, the same constituency his father and his older brother had also represented, until 1776. Subsequently he was returned for Down until 1790. On 15 February 1783, he married his maternal cousin Lady Arabella Crosbie, youngest daughter of William Crosbie, 1st Earl of Glandore and had by her six daughters and five sons. Ward died at the family's residence

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in 1812. His third and oldest surviving son

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succeeded as

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in 1827.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Edward 1753 births 1812 deaths

19th-century Irish people People from County Down Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies Younger sons of viscounts