Biography of John Hubert Ward 1870-1938

On 24th April 1851 [his father] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (age 34) and Selina Constance de Burgh Baroness Ward (age 21) were married. She by marriage Baroness Ward of Birmingham; she died seven months later.

On 21st November 1865 [his father] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (age 48) and [his mother] Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley (age 19) were married. The difference in their ages was 29 years.

On 20th March 1870 John Hubert Ward was born to William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (age 52) and Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley (age 23).

On 7th May 1885 [his father] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (age 68) died at Dudley House Park Lane. His son [his brother] William (age 17) succeeded 2nd Earl of Dudley of Dudley Castle in Staffordshire, 12th Baron Ward of Birmingham.

On 11th January 1900 John Hubert Ward (age 29) was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Worcestershire Yeomanry (The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars). He served in the Boer War between 1900 and 1901 as an aide to Major General John Palmer Brabazon.

In 1901 John Hubert Ward (age 30) was the Assistant Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the War Office, Edward George Villiers Stanley 17th Earl of Derby (age 35).

In April 1908 the engagement between John Hubert Ward (age 38) and [his future wife] Jean Templeton Reid (age 23) was annouced. She the daughter of Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador to the United Kingdom.

On 23rd June 1908 John Hubert Ward (age 38) and Jean Templeton Reid (age 23) were married at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. He the son of William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley (age 61).

In 1913 Rachel Anne Gurney Countess Dudley (age 45) commissioned a new reredos at Saint Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley [Map] from Salviati of Venice. The three lamps hanging in the sanctuary were given by the Countess in thanks for her [his brother] husband (age 45) and his two brothers [John Hubert Ward (age 42) and [his brother] Robert Arthur Ward (age 41)] returning safely from the Boer War. The initials on the mosaics appear to be those of the three brothers.

On 2nd December 1928 John Hubert Ward (age 58) died.

On 1st May 1962 [his former wife] Jean Templeton Reid (age 77) died.