Edward Michael Ward
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Edward Michael Ward (5 February 1789 – 12 September 1832)[1] was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.
He was the oldest son of Robert Ward and his first wife Sophia Frances Whaley, third daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley.[1] His younger brother James was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy.[1]
Ward served as secretary of legation at Stuttgart from 1814.[2] He was transferred to Lisbon in 1816[2] and was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to the Court of Portugal in 1820, an office he held until 1823.[3] In the following year, Ward came as secretary of embassy to St Petersburg[2] and was thereupon nominated Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Russia ad interim until 1825.[3] Subsequently, he was for one year in Vienna[2] and became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Saxony in 1828, returning to England in 1832.[3]
On 14 September 1815, he married Lady Matilda Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry,[4] and had by her a daughter and a son. Ward died at Brighton, aged 43, a year after his father[5] and only months after his younger brother Bernard.[6]
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