Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor [SEP] date of death
Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor
Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor (18 August 1719 – 20 May 1781), was an Irish politician and peer.
Background.
He was the only surviving son of Michael Ward of Castle Ward, County Down, and his wife Anne Catharina Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton.
Career.
Ward entered the Irish House of Commons in 1745, representing Down, the same constituency his father had represented, until 1770, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as
Edward Wolstenholme Ward, a son of John Petty Ward, younger brother of the third Viscount, sat in the New South Wales Legislative Council. The actress Lalla Ward is the daughter of the seventh Viscount and the former wife of Professor Richard Dawkins.
The family seat is Castle Ward, near Strangford, County Down.
Viscounts Bangor (1781).
- Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor (1719–1781)
- Nicholas Ward, 2nd Viscount Bangor (1750–1827)
- Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor (1790–1837