William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley
- William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley
William Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley MC (30 January 1894 – 26 December 1969), known as Viscount Ednam until 1932, was a British Conservative politician.
Lord Dudley was the eldest son of William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, and his wife Rachel (née Gurney). George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley, was his younger brother.
He was educated at Eton and commissioned into the Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1912. In 1914 he transferred to the regular 10th Hussars. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1915 and ended the First World War as a Captain.
He sat as Member of Parliament for Hornsey from 1921 to 1924 and for Wednesbury from 1931 to 1932 and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for India, Lord Winterton, between 1922 and 1924. He also held the honorary post of High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1930.
Dudley married firstly, as Viscount Ednam, Lady Rosemary Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (d. 1930), younger but only surviving daughter of Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland, in 1919. She died in a plane crash in 1930, aged 36; she was survived by two of her three sons. Ward married secondly (Frances) Laura Charteris (1915-1990), daughter of the Hon. Guy Lawrence Charteris and former wife of Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long, in 1943. The marriage was childless and they were divorced in 1954. Laura went on to marry the 10th Duke of Marlborough shortly before his death, and died in 1990. Dudley married thirdly Grace Maria Radziwill nee Kolin (b. 1923), daughter of Michael Kolin and former wife of Prince Stanislaus Radziwill, in 1961. This marriage was also childless.
Ward died in December 1969, aged 75, and was succeeded by his eldest and elder surviving son William. His third but younger surviving son the Hon. Peter Alistair Ward (d. 2008) was the father of the actress Rachel Ward and the environmentalist Tracy Louise Ward.
References
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