William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (21 January 1750 – 25 April 1823) was a British peer and politician. Ward was the son of

John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (6 March 1704 – 6 May 1774), known as John Ward until 1740 and as the 6th Baron Ward from 1740 to 1763, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Life Ward was the s ...

, by his second wife Mary Carver. He was elected to the

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for

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in 1780, a seat he held until 1788, when he succeeded his half-brother in the viscountcy and entered the

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. In 1780 he married Julia Bosville, younger daughter of Godfrey Bosville of

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, Yorkshire, and sister of the ardent Whig Colonel

William Bosville Colonel William Bosville (1745–1813), Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, of New Hall, Gunthwaite, of Thorpe Hall,Papers of the Bosville-Macdonald Family of Gunthwaite, Thorpe and Skye Rudston, both in Yorkshire, and of 76 Welbeck Street, St ...

(1745–1813). Ward died in April 1823, aged 73, and was succeeded by his son

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, who served as

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and was created

Earl of Dudley Earl of Dudley, of Dudley Castle in the County of Stafford (now the West Midlands), is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, both times for members of the Ward family. History Dudley was first used for a p ...

in 1827.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dudley and Ward, William Ward, 3rd Viscount 1750 births 1823 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Worcester

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