Georgina Elizabeth Ward, Countess of Dudley RRC, DStJ (née Moncreiffe; 9 August 1846 – 2 February 1929) was a British noblewoman and noted beauty of the Victorian era.

[3] In the summer of 1865, the engagement was announced between the 18-year-old Georgina and the 48-year-old William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, a wealthy land and mine owner.

Scores of women may be said to have challenged her supremacy, and to have been her superiors at certain points, but her exquisitely shaped and poised head, her flowerlike complexion, her matchlessly beautiful eyes,, her dignity of carriage, even in early youth, made her fame to ring through Europe.

In Vienna the crowds gathered in the Plaza to watch the Imperial carriage pass to and fro admitted that their hitherto peerless Empress paled before the Englishwoman seated by her side.Over the course of their marriage, Georgina and Dudley had one daughter and six sons.

He insisted on his wife's wearing full dress, even at the remotest shooting lodge in the Highlands; he loaded her with gorgeous jewels, some of which were the subject of a remarkable robbery; he bought the famous Coventry vases for a birthday present; he gave her everything – always excepting any measure of responsibility.The theft of Lady Dudley's jewels on 12 December 1874 at Paddington Station was a famous crime in Victorian England.

[2] In 1908, she was appointed a Lady President of the League of Mercy, an organisation established to recruit volunteers to aid the sick and suffering at charity hospitals.

As dowager countess, Lady Dudley lived at Pembroke Lodge in London, granted to her by "grace and favour" of King Edward VII.

[10] Their youngest son, Lieutenant Gerald Ward, a first class-cricketer for Marylebone Cricket Club,[11] was killed in action in 1914 while serving with the 1st Life Guards[12] at Zandvoorde, Belgium.

He insisted upon his wife's wearing full dress, even at the remotest shooting-lodge in the Highlands; he loaded her with gorgeous jewels', and so on, 'he gave her everything--always excepting any measure of responsibility'.