Nicholas Ward, 2nd Viscount Bangor
Nicholas Ward, 2nd Viscount Bangor (5 December 1750 – 11 September 1827),[1] styled The Honourable from 1770 until 1781, was an Irish politician and peer.
He was the eldest son of Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor and his wife Lady Ann Bligh, daughter of John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley and his wife Theodosia Bligh, 10th Baroness Clifton.[2] His younger brothers were Edward Ward and Robert Ward.[3] He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1769.[4]
Ward entered the Irish House of Commons in 1771, sitting for Bangor until 1776.[5] He succeeded his father as viscount in 1781 and was considered a lunatic from 1785, having been placed under disability by a bill of the Irish House of Lords on petition of his brother Edward and his uncle Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet.[6] Ward died, aged 76, at his residence Castle Ward, unmarried and succeeded in the viscountcy by his nephew Edward.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 785.
- ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 75.
- ^ "ThePeerage - Nicholas Ward, 2nd Viscount Bangor". Retrieved 7 August 2009.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Sylvanus, Urban (1827). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: J. B. Nicholls. p. 463.
- 1750 births
- 1827 deaths
- Ward family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy)
- Bligh family
- 19th-century Irish politicians
- Politicians from County Down
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Irish MPs 1769–1776
- Members of the Irish House of Lords
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies
- Viscounts Bangor