Robert Plumer Ward - Family

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Ward married three times.

  1. His first marriage, on 2 April 1796, was to Catherine Julia, the fourth daughter of Christopher Thompson Maling of Durham, By it Ward became acquainted with Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, who had married the eldest daughter. Henry George Ward, their son, was a diplomat, politician, and travel author.
  2. On 16 July 1828 Ward married, secondly, Mrs. Plumer Lewin of Gilston Park, Hertfordshire, and on this occasion took the surname of Plumer in addition to Ward. She died in 1831. Her first husband had been the MP William Plumer, who died in 1822. She then married Captain Richard John Lewin R.N., brother of Harriet Grote, in 1825; he died in 1827. On her death in 1833 the fortune she had from William Plumer passed to Henry George Ward, her stepson.
  3. He married, thirdly, in 1833, Mary Anne, widow of Charles Gregory O'Keover and daughter of Lieutenant-general Sir George Anson, a lady of fortune.

Ward was the grandfather of the judge, Dudley Ward; and the granduncle of the theologian, William George Ward.

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