| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dudley, John William Ward, Earl of, 1781-1833 NRA: Ward, John William (1781-1833) Earl Dudley of Dudley Castle, statesman DNB: Ward, John William, earl of Dudley (1781-1833), politician LBT ID: LdDudle VIAF ID: 58168354 LOC ID: n88125059  | B/BAP:   1781-08-09 DIED: 1833-03-06  | 
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The son of William Ward, third Viscount Dudley (d. 1823); educated at Edinburgh and
                        Oxford, he was an English MP, sometimes a Foxite Whig and sometimes Canningite Tory, who
                        suffered from insanity in his latter years.  | |