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490 DUDLEY became extinct, the Barony of Ward of Birmingham devolving on his 2nd cousin and h. male, the h. male of the body of the grantee. Will pr. Sep. 1833- DUDLEY OF DUDLEY CASTLE EARLDOM. John William (Ward), Viscount Dudley and Ward OF Dudley, and Baron Ward of Birmingham, was, 5 Oct. 1827, cr. VISCOUNT EDNAM of Ednam, co. Roxburgh, and EARL OF DUDLEY OF DUDLEY CASTLE, CO. Stafford. He d. unm., 6 Mar. 1833, when that title (as also the Viscountcy of Dudley and Ward) became extinct. See fuller particulars next above. I. 1827 to 1833 II. i860. I. William (Ward), Baron Ward of Birmingham, was 1st s. and h. of William Humble (Ward), loth Baron Ward of Birmingham, by Susanna, da. of ( — ) Beecroft, which William was 2nd cousin and h. male of John William (Ward), Earl of Dudley of Dudley Castle, ^c, abovenamed. He was 1^. 27 Mar. 1 8 1 7, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; ed. at Eton; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 4 June 1835, whence he removed to Trin. Coll., but never took any degree. He sue. his father in the Barony of Ward, 6 Dec. 1835. ^^ never held political office, but was Col. Com. of the Worcestershire Yeomanry 1854, of which, in 1871, he became Hon. Col. On 17 Feb. i860, he was cr. VISCOUNT EDNAM of Ednam, co. Roxburgh, and EARL OF DUD- LEY of Dudley Castle, co. Stafford. Trustee of the Nat. Portrait Gallery 1863-66; Trustee of the Nat. Gallery 1877-84. He m., istly, 24 Apr. 1 85 1, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Selina Constance, only child of Hubert DE Burgh, of West Drayton, Midx., by Marianne, 6th da. of John Richard Delap Tollemache, formerly Halliday, Admiral, R.N. She d. s.p. (a few months later), very suddenly, of paralysis of the lungs, 14 Nov. 1 851, at Schwalbach, in Germany, aged 22, and was bur. at Himley.^") He w., 2ndly, 21 Nov. 1865, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Georgiana Elizabeth, 3rd da. of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Bart. [S.], by Louisa, da. of Thomas Robert (Hay), loth Earl of Kinnoull [S.]. He d. of pneumonia, 7 May 1885, aged 68, at Dudley House, Park Lane, afsd.C") Will dat. 12 June (') A story is told in Lady Cardigan's My Recollections, of her being caught in an intrigue with Lord Dupplin, and turned out of her husband's house at 3 a.m. Very disgusting details, true or not, are also given of Lord Ward's conduct after his wife's death. V.G. C") He was at first a Conservative, and follower of Peel, and, like most Peelites, became a Liberal, but in 1869 opposed Gladstone's Irish Church Disestablishment Bill. He was a well-known patron of art and possessed a very fine collection of pictures. Of these the famous " Grand Canal of Venice," by Turner, was sold, in 1889, by his son for ;^20,000 to C. Vanderbilt, of New York. "An otherwise