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William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley

William Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, MC TD (30 January 1894 – 26 December 1969), known as Viscount Ednam until 1932, was a British Conservative Party politician.

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Dudley
MC TD

Alfred Short

John William Banfield

William Kennedy Jones

Euan Wallace

William Humble Eric Ward

(1894-01-30)30 January 1894

26 December 1969(1969-12-26) (aged 75)

Conservative

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(m. 1919; died 1930)​
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(m. 1943; div. 1954)​
Grace Maria Radziwill
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(m. 1961)​

3, including William, 4th Earl of Dudley

William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
Rachel Gurney

Eton College

Early life[edit]

Lord Dudley was the eldest son of William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, and his wife Rachel (née Gurney) CBE. Among his siblings was George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley, Lady Gladys Honor Ward[1] (wife of Maj. Percival Cunningham Allan Bridgeman) and Lady Morvyth Lillian Ward (wife of Constantine Evelyn Benson, a grandson of Robert Stayner Holford).


His paternal grandparents were William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and the former Georgina Elizabeth Moncreiffe (third daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet and Lady Louisa Hay, the eldest daughter of Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull). His maternal grandparents were Charles Henry Gurney and Alice Prinsep Gurney (a daughter of Henry Thoby Prinsep of the Bengal Civil Service). His maternal aunt was Laura, Lady Troubridge.


He was educated at Eton.

(1920–2013), who married Stella Carcano y Morra, a daughter of Don Miguel Angel Carcano, who was the Argentine Ambassador to the U.K. They divorced in 1960 and he married the Scottish actress and socialite Maureen Swanson.

William Ward, 4th Earl of Dudley

John Jeremy Ward (1922–1929), who died in childhood.

Peter Alistair Ward (1926–2008), who married Claire Leonora Baring, a granddaughter of , in 1956. They had several children including the actress and environmentalist Tracy Louise Ward and actress Rachel Ward before divorcing.

Guy Baring

Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Dudley

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