John Hubert Ward 1870-1938

On 24th April 1851 [his father] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley [aged 34] and Selina Constance de Burgh Baroness Ward [aged 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 [aged 48] and [his mother] Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley [aged 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 [aged 52] and Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley [aged 23].

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

In 1891 [his brother] William Humble Ward 2nd Earl of Dudley [aged 23] and [his sister-in-law] Rachel Anne Gurney Countess Dudley [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess of Dudley of Dudley Castle in Staffordshire. He the son of [his father] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley and [his mother] Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley [aged 44].

On 5th January 1895 [his brother-in-law] Frederic Glyn 4th Baron Wolverton [aged 30] and [his sister] Edith Amelia Ward Baroness Wolverton [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Baroness Wolverton. She the daughter of [his father] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley and [his mother] Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley [aged 48].

On 11th January 1900 John Hubert Ward [aged 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 [aged 30] was the Assistant Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the War Office, Edward George Villiers Stanley 17th Earl of Derby [aged 35].

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

On 23rd June 1908 John Hubert Ward [aged 38] and Jean Templeton Reid [aged 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 [aged 61].

In 1913 [his sister-in-law] Rachel Anne Gurney Countess Dudley [aged 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 husband [aged 45] and his two brothers [John Hubert Ward [aged 42] and Robert Arthur Ward [aged 41]] returning safely from the Boer War. The initials on the mosaics appear to be those of the three brothers.

On 15th February 1924 Lionel Monkton [aged 62] died. His wife [his future sister-in-law] Gertie Millar [aged 44] married [his brother] William Humble Ward 2nd Earl of Dudley [aged 56] two months later.

On 30th April 1924 [his brother] William Humble Ward 2nd Earl of Dudley [aged 56] and [his sister-in-law] Gertrude "Gertie" Millar Countess of Dudley [aged 45] were married. She by marriage Countess of Dudley of Dudley Castle in Staffordshire. He the son of [his father] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley and [his mother] Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley [aged 77].

On 2nd December 1928 John Hubert Ward [aged 58] died.

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