Maxwell Richard Crosbie Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor OBE PC (Ire) (4 May 1868 – 17 November 1950), was an Irish peer and politician.

He was promoted to captain on 1 April 1898, appointed divisional adjutant in February 1900,[3] and Instructor at the School of Gunnery on 10 October 1900.

[5][1] He was temporarily appointed a Lieutenant Colonel while in the Royal Naval Division Army Ordnance Depot.

[6] He was a representative peer in the House of Lords from 1913 to 1950 and an Ulster Unionist member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1921 until his death in 1950.

He was succeeded by his son Edward Ward, a journalist who made his name as a BBC foreign correspondent.