[citation needed] Ward never held any political office,[5] but served as Colonel Commander of the Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1854.

He married, secondly, Georgina Elisabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet, and Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond, on 21 November 1865.

His sister-in-law Harriet Moncreiffe, who a few years later, as Lady Mordaunt, became embroiled in a sensational divorce case, referred to him as "frizzle wig".

[14] Ward died on 7 May 1885, aged 68, at Dudley House, Park Lane, Mayfair, in London, and was originally buried in a marble sarcophagus in the crypt of Saint Michael and All Angels Church in Great Witley, Worcestershire.

The Countess of Dudley survived her husband by over forty years and died in February 1929 at her home at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park[15] at the age of 82, having spent over half her life as a widow.