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 DEBRETT 9 ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 161 DUDLEY, EARL OF. (WARD.) WILLIAM WARD, 1st Earl (of the 2nd creation) and 11th Baron Ward. Born March 27th, 1817; succeeded to the Barony of Ward, on the death of his father, in 1836 ; educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford; was Lieut. -Col. Commandant of the Worcestershire Yeo- manry Cavalry 1864 71, when he was made Hon. Col. ; is a Dep. Lieut, of Worcestershire and Staffordshire, and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of the former county: married 1st (1851), Selina Constance, eldest daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Esq. of West Drayton Manor, Middlesex, (this lady died, 1851) ; 2ndly (1865), Georgiana Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Bart, and has issue, living, Sons, William Humble, Viscount Ednam, b. 186;. John Hubert, b. 18/0. Robert Arthur, b. 1871. Reginald, b. 1874. Daughter, Edith Amelia, b. 1872. Sister living, Julia Susannah, b. 1818, m. 1842, the Right Rev. Thomas Legh Claughton, D.D., 97th Lord Bishop of Rochester, (see Bishops). Creations, Baron Ward of Birmingham, in the peerage of England, 1664, Earl of Dudley and Viscount Ednam, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, I860. [John William, 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward, and 9th Baron Ward, was, in 1827, created Earl Dudley of Dudley- castle ; but on his decease, in 1833, both the Viscountcy arid Earldom became extinct.] Patron of thirteen livings, Old Swinford, R. Kidderminster, V. Great Witley, R. St. John's, V. Stourbridge. shelstey Walsh, R. Shelsley Beaucliamp, R. Holt, K. St. Thomas, V. Dudley, Worcestershire. Kinsrswinford, R. Himley, R. St. Mary's, V. Kingswinfonf, R. with Pensnett, V. Serigley, V. Staffordshire. firms, Cheeky, or and azure : a bend, ermine, (freat, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a lion's head, azure. Supporters, Two angels, proper, habited, azure, wings displayed and inverted, or. Seats, Witley-court, Stourport, Worcestershire, Himley-hall, Dudley, Stafford slii re ; Crogen, Corwen, Merionethshire. Town [and chief] Residence, Dudley-house, Park- lane, W. C7M5>s, Carlton, White's. DUDLEY, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, the Rev. William Humble, 10th Baron Ward. He was b. Jan. 9, 1/81, and succeeded his cousin, March 5, 1833; m. May 22, 1815, Amelia, daughter of William Gooch Pillans, Esq. of Breacondale ; and d. Dec. 6, 1836, having had issue two sons and three daughters. Duff, family name of the Earl of Fife. DUFFERIN, EARL OF. (HAMILTON-BLACKWOOP.) FREDERICK TEMPLE HAMILTON- BLACK - WOOD, K.P. P.C. K.C.B. 1st Earl and a Baronet, Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rotu- lorum of (co.) Down. Born June 21, 1826; succeeded his father in 1841 ; w.-is educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford; was a Lord in Waiting to the Queen, 184852, and 18548; I Id- Majesty's Commissioner in Syria, 1860 1 ; Under Secretary for India, 1804 6, for Strait forward. ^ 186 ' ^ ChanCell r f the