Background
Ward was the third son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, and his second wife Georgina Elisabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Ward was the third son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, and his second wife Georgina Elisabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet.
Eton; Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He was returned to Parliament for Crewe in the 1895 general election, a seat he held until 1900. Ward fought in the Matabeleland campaign of 1896. He served with the 4th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, in the Second Boer War from early 1900 until he resigned his commission 5 March 1902, when he was appointed a second lieutenant of the Worcestershire Yeomanry (The Queen´s Own Worcestershire Hussars).
He later served in the First World War, where he was twice mentioned in despatches.
In 1919 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire). He died in June 1942, aged 71.
Conservative.
Clubs: Turf, Marlborough, Bachelors’, et cetera
Spouse 1906, Lady Mary Acheson,daughter of 4th Earl of Gosford, tj.v.