William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward

William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward was a clergyman who succeeded to the Dudley Barony.

Early life

He was the son of Humble Ward and wife Susannah Beecroft. His paternal grandparents were the Rev. William Ward and Elizabeth Hawkes.
He was educated at Eton College before attending Queens' College, Cambridge.

A clergyman in the Church of England, Ward served as rector at Himley, Staffordshire, before succeeding his second cousin John Ward as the 10th Baron Ward of Birmingham on 6 March 1833.

On 22 May 1816, Ward married Amelia Pillans, a daughter of William Gooch Pillans, Esq. of Bracondale, Norfolk. Together, they were the parents of:

William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, who married Selina Constance de Burgh, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, in 1851. After her death that same year, he married Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet and Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond, in 1865.
Hon. Humble Dudley Ward, who Eleanor Louisa Hawkes, daughter of Thomas Hawkes, MP for Dudley, in 1843.
Hon. Julia Susannah Ward, who married Rt. Rev. Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of St Albans, a son of Thomas Claughton, MP for Newton, in 1842.

Lord Ward died on 6 December 1835. His widow, the dowager Baroness Ward, died on 23 May 1882.

Through his son Humble, he was a grandfather of Amelia Alice Julia Ward, Henrietta Maria Ward, and William Humble Dudley Ward.
Through his daughter Julia, he was a grandfather of Gilbert Henry Claughton, who was created a baronet of The Priory in the Parish of Dudley, in 1912, and Amelia Maria Claughton.