Henry William Crosbie Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor DL, JP (26 July 1828 – 23 February 1911), styled The Honourable from birth until 1881, was an Irish peer,

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politician and soldier.

Background

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

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. Ward was educated at

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and then at the

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. In 1881, he succeeded his older brother

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as viscount.

Career

Ward entered the British Army in 1846 and served in the

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. He fought in the

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and retired in 1854 as captain. In 1886, Ward was elected a

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to the

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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of

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and represented the county also as

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Family

On 6 December 1854, he married the Irish entomologist, microscopist, and writer Mary King, a cousin of the astronomer and naturalist

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, and the pioneering photographer

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. The couple had five daughters and three sons. 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. His second marriage was childless. Ward died, aged 82 at his residence

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and was buried at Ballycutter four days later. He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his youngest and only surviving son Maxwell.

References

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Irish officers in the British Army