DUDLEY. 189 OF DUDLEY CASTLE, co. Stafford ; F.R.S., &c. He d. unm. 6 Marsh 1833, at Norwood, Snrrej', in his . r )2d year, when the Earldom and Viscountcy became extinct, the Barony of Ward of Birmingham devolving on his 2d cousin and h. male, the heir male of the body of the grantee. Will pr. Sep. 1833. DUDLEY OF DUDLEY CASTLE 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 CASTLI5, co. Stanord. He d. unm. 6 March 1833, when that title (as also the Viscountcy of Dudley and Ward) became extinct. See fuller particulars next immediately above. 1. "William (Ward), Baron Ward of Birmingham [1611] was, 17 Feb. I860, cr. VISCOUNT EDNAM of Ednam, co. Roxburgh, and EARL OF DUDLEY of Dudley Castle, co. Stafford. He was 1st s. and b. of William Humble (Ward), 10th Baron Ward of Birmingham (by Susanna, da, of ( — ) Beecroft), who was 2d cousin and h. male of John William (Ward), Earl of Dudley of Dudley Castle, &c, abovenamed. He was b. 27 March 1817, 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, C Dec. 1835, but tho' well known as a patron of the artsC 1 ) he never held any . -Hi' ■ • - > vo that of CoL Com. of the Worcestershire Yeomanry 1854, of which, in 1S71, he became Hon. Col. In 1860 he was raised to a Viscountcy and Earldom as above. He in. firstly, 24 April 1851, at St. Geo. Han. sq., Selina-Constauce, only child of Hubert dk BuHQH, of West Drayton, Midx., by Marianne, 6th da. of Jolra- Richard-Delap Tollemache, formerly Haluday, Admiral, R.N. Lady Ward d. s.p. (a few months later), 14 Nov. 1851, at Schwalbach, in Germany, aged 22. He m. secondly, 21 Nov. 1855, at St. Geo. Han. sq., Georgiana-Elizabeth, 3rd da. of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, 7th Bart. [S.], by Louisa, da. of Thomas-Robert (Hay), 10th Earl of Kinnoill fSj He d. 7 May 1885, aged 68, at Dudley House, Park lane afsd. Willdat. 12 June 1878, pr. IS July 1885, over £1,026,000. His widow living 1890. III. 18S5. 2. William -Humble (Ward), Earl of Dudley of Dudley Castle [1S60], Viscount Ednam [1S60] and Baron WaKD of Birmingham [1644J, 1st s. and h., 6. 25 May 1867, at Dudley House afsd., styled Viscount Ednam, till 1885 ; ed. at Eton. Family Estates— These, in 1883, consisted of 14,698 acres in Worcestershire, 4,730 in Staffordshire (worth £68,460 ayear), 4,472 in Merionethshire, 563 in Salop, and 1,0S6 in Roxburghshire. Total, 25,554 acres, worth £123,176 a year. Principal Residence — Witley Court, near Stourport, co. Worcester, an estate purchased in 1S3S by Lord Ward for £900,000, being formerly the property of the family of Foley. It will be seen by reference to vol. ii, p. 51, note " a " (sub " Buccleuch," circa finem), that, tho' Lord Dudley's acreage is not a quarter of most of the 28 noblemen therein given who possess 100,000 acres, his incomo is only exceeded by six (Buccleuch, Devon, Northumberland, Bute, Sutherland, and Fitzwilliam) of that number, which cause is attributable to the extensive coal-mines on his property. DUDLEY OF PENSHURST. See " De L'Isle and Dudley ofPenshurst, co. Kent," Barony (Sidney^ cr. 1835. Earldom. L 1827, to 1833. II. 1860. ( a ) His collection of pictures was a very fine one. Of these the famous " Grand Canal of Venice," by Turner, was sold, in 1S89, by his son for £20,000 to Mi-. C. Vanderbilt, of New York.
