Col. Robert Ward PC (Ire) (14 July 1754 – March 1831),[1] styled The Honourable from 1770, was an Irish politician and colonel of the South Down militia.
[3] Following the latter's death in 1812, he conveyed the by-that-time-insane 2nd Viscount out of his residence Castle Ward and plundered it.
[1] Ward was elected for Killyleagh in 1790 and represented it until 1798, when he was returned for Bangor, the family's customary constituency, until the Act of Union in 1801.
[4] Ward won a by-election to the British House of Commons for Down in May 1812, however he did not stand in the next general election in October.
His daughter Anne-Catherine married the barrister John Goddard Richards of Ardamine Estate, County Wexford.