Edward Michael Ward

Edward Michael Ward (5 February 1789 – 12 September 1832)^[1] was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.

He was the oldest son of Robert Ward and his first wife Sophia Frances Whaley, third daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley.^[1] His younger brother James was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy.^[1]

Ward served as secretary of legation at Stuttgart from 1814.^[2] He was transferred to Lisbon in 1816^[2] and was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to the Court of Portugal in 1820, an office he held until 1823.^[3] In the following year, Ward came as secretary of embassy to St Petersburg^[2] and was thereupon nominated Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Russia ad interim until 1825.^[3] Subsequently he was for one year in Vienna^[2] and became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Saxony in 1828, returning to England in 1832.^[3]

On 14 September 1815, he married Lady Matilda Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry,^[4] and had by her a daughter and a son. Ward died at Brighton, aged 43, a year after his father^[5] and only months after his younger brother Bernard.^[6]

References

1. Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 41.
2. "German Historical Institute London, Official Website - Edward Michael Ward". Retrieved 12 August 2009.
3. Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 80–82.
4. Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. vol. I (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 785.
5. Sylvanus, Urban (1832). The Gentleman's Magazine. part II. London: J. B. Nichols and Son. p. 389.
6. Sylvanus, Urban (1832). The Gentleman's Magazine. part I. London: J. B. Nichols and Son. p. 282.