[1] He was the son of Humble Ward and wife Susannah Beecroft.
[2] Through his son Humble, he was a grandfather of Amelia Alice Julia Ward (wife of Lt.-Gen. James Keith Fraser, son of Lt.-Col. Sir James Fraser, 3rd Baronet, and parents of Sir Keith Fraser, 5th Baronet), Henrietta Maria Ward (wife of George Stewart Forbes, a son of Sir Charles Forbes, 3rd Baronet), and William Humble Dudley Ward (who married Hon.
Eugenie Brett, a daughter of the 1st Viscount Esher, parents of William Dudley Ward).
[2] Through his daughter Julia, he was a grandfather of Gilbert Henry Claughton (1856–1921), who was created a baronet of The Priory in the Parish of Dudley, in 1912,[7] and Amelia Maria Claughton (wife of Lt.-Col. Hon.
Augustus Anson, a son of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, and after his death, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll).