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"1st Earl of Dudley" John Ward Hand Signed Album Page:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Earl of Dudley" John Ward Hand Signed Album Page. 

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John

William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS (9 August 1781 – 6 March 1833), known as the

Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th

Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician.

He served as Foreign

Secretary from 1827 to 1828. Dudley was the son of William

Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward, and his wife Julia Bosville, and

was educated at Oxford University (starting at Oriel College in 1798

and transferring to Corpus Christi College,

Oxford as a Gentleman Commoner in

1800). Dudley entered the House of

Commons in 1802 as one of two representatives for Downton.

He held this seat until 1803 and later to 1806, Petersfield from

1806 to 1807, Wareham from

1807 to 1812, Ilchester from

1812 to 1819 and Bossiney from

1819 to 1823. The latter year he succeeded his father in the peerage and took

his seat in the House of Lords. In 1827

Ward was Canning, a post he held also under Lord

Goderich and the Duke of

Wellington, resigning office in May 1828. In 1827 he was admitted to

the Privy

Council and created Viscount Ednam, of Ednam in the

County of Roxburgh, and Earl of Dudley, of Dudley Castle in the

County of Stafford. As foreign minister Ward was only a cipher; but he was a

man of considerable learning and had some reputation as a writer and a talker.

Dudley took an interest in the foundation of the University of London, and

his Letters to Edward Copleston,

the Bishop of Llandaff, were

published by the bishop in 1840. According to the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at the University College London,

Dudley's estate was compensated for the emancipation of slaves by the Abolition Act 1833 with

the Slave Compensation Act

1837. The British Government took out a £15 million loan (worth

£1.43 billion in 2021[1]) with interest from Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Moses Montefiore which was subsequently paid off by the

British taxpayers (ending in 2015). Dudley was associated with three different

cases, he owned 665 slaves in Jamaica and his estate was awarded a £12,728 payment at

the time (worth £1.22 million in 2021). Dudley had died by the time the funds came

through, so his estate was distributed among; his cousin William

Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward, Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter, Edward

Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton, Edward John Littleton, Francis

Downing and John Benbow. 

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