Edward Ward (politician)

Edward Ward (30 April 1753 – November 1812),[1] styled The Honourable from 1770, was an Irish politician.

[3] In 1785, he and his uncle Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet petitioned the Irish House of Lords successfully to place Nicholas under disability.

[4] Ward entered the Irish House of Commons in 1776, sitting for Bangor, the same constituency his father and his older brother had also represented, until 1776.

[1] On 15 February 1783, he married his maternal cousin Lady Arabella Crosbie, youngest daughter of William Crosbie, 1st Earl of Glandore[citation needed] and had by her six daughters and five sons.

[5] His third and oldest surviving son Edward succeeded as Viscount Bangor in 1827.