Sir Edward Ward, 1st Baronet of Bexley

Sir Edward Ward, 1st Baronet of Bexley (c. 1618–1684) was twice Sheriff of Norfolk in 1655–56 and 1656–57.

Biography

Edward Ward was son and heir of Thomas Ward, of Bexley (bur. there 17 September 1632), by Anne, daughter of William Pert, of Essex, was born about 1618. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 1 November 1635. He was twice Sheriff of Norfolk in 1655-56 and 1656-57. He was knighted, while sheriff, by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell at Whitehall on 2 November 1657 (this honour passed into oblivion at the Restoration. King Charles II created him a baronet of Bexley, Norfolk, on 19 December 1660. He died and was buried at Bixley on 2 September 1684.^[1]

Family

Edward Ward married firstly Mary, daughter of Richard Catelyn of Kirby Cane. She died before her father and was, apparently, buried at Postwick, Norfolk. He married secondly Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Harborne, of Mundham, Norfolk, who was son of William Harborne, ambassador (1582) to Turkey.^[1] They had children:

• Edward, who became the 2nd baronet and married Jane, daughter of William Rant, M.D. of London, and died about 1684, when he was succeed by his eldest son Thomas.^[2]

Notes

References

• Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard (1841), A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2 ed.), Scott, Webster, and Geary, p. 552 

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1903), Complete Baronetage 1649–1664 3, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, p. 139