Robert Ward (British politician)

Captain The Honourable Robert Arthur Ward, OBE (23 February 1871 – 14 June 1942), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.

William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, was his elder brother.

[1] He was returned to Parliament for Crewe in the 1895 general election, a seat he held until 1900.

He served with the 4th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, in the Second Boer War from early 1900 until he resigned his commission 5 March 1902,[3] when he was appointed a second lieutenant of the Worcestershire Yeomanry (The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars).

In 1919 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).