Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor

Henry William Crosbie Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor DL, JP (26 July 1828 – 23 February 1911),[1] styled The Honourable from birth until 1881, was an Irish peer, Conservative politician and soldier.

[2] Ward was educated at Rugby School and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

[3] Ward entered the British Army in 1846 and served in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot.

[4] In 1886, Ward was elected an Irish representative peer to the House of Lords.

On 6 December 1854, he married the Irish entomologist, microscopist, and writer Mary King, a cousin of the astronomer and naturalist William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, and the pioneering photographer Mary Rosse.