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. ^ a b c Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. pp. 41. 
  2. ^ a b c d "German Historical Institute London, Official Website - Edward Michael Ward". http://www.ghil.ac.uk/denqEnvoys/index.php?view=bio_layout&bio_ID=1123. Retrieved 12 August 2009. 
  3. ^ a b c Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personal 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. pp. 785. 
  5. ^ Sylvanus, Urban (1832). The Gentleman's Magazine. part II. London: J. B. Nichols and Son. pp. 389. 
  6. ^ Sylvanus, Urban (1832). The Gentleman's Magazine. part I. London: J. B. Nichols and Son. pp. 282. 
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Edward Thornton		 Chargé d'Affaires to the Court of Portugal
1820–1823		 Succeeded by
Sir Edward Thornton
Preceded by
Hon. Frederick Cathcart		 Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Russia
ad interim
1824–1825		 Succeeded by
Edward Cromwell Disbrowe
Preceded by
George William Chad		 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of Saxony
1828–1832		 Succeeded by
Hon. Francis Reginald Forbes