John Hubert Ward

Ward was the second son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley by his wife Georgina Elizabeth née Moncreiffe.{{cite news|title=REID WON FAME IN MANY FIELDS; Had Been a Journalist Half a Century – Diplomat in Two European Capitals.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/12/16/archives/reid-won-fame-in-many-fields-had-been-a-journalist-half-a-century.html|accessdate=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 December 1912}} His paternal grandfather was William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward and his maternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet.{{cite book|last1=Mosley|first1=Charles|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes|date=2003|publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd.|location=Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.|page=1190|url=http://www.burkespeerage.com/|accessdate=15 November 2017|language=en}}{{cite book|last1=Fox-Davies|first1=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority|date=1895|publisher=Jack|page=[https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies00infoxd/page/316 316]|url=https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies00infoxd|accessdate=15 November 2017|language=en}}

Following his father's death in 1885, his brother, William Humble Ward, succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Dudley. His other siblings included Robert Ward, a member of parliament for Crewe. All six sons of the 1st Earl received half a million dollars upon their father's death.

Ward was educated at Eton College.

He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Worcestershire Yeomanry (The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars) on 11 January 1900,{{London Gazette| issue=27156 |page=435 |date=23 January 1900}} and served in the Second Boer War 1900–1901, as an aide to Major Gen. John Palmer Brabazon.{{cite web|title=The Boer Wars – Personalities – Second Boer War – Major-General John Palmer Brabazon|url=https://www.boer-war.com/Personalities/British/BrabazonJohnPalmerMajor-General.html|website=boer-war.com|publisher=Boer-War.com|accessdate=15 November 2017}} He was promoted to lieutenant, and later fought in the First World War and gained the rank of major.{{cite web|title=Medal card of Ward, John H Corps: King's Messenger Rank: Captain|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5743041|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|accessdate=15 November 2017}}{{Lives of WWI |id= 4617685 | name= John H Ward }}

In 1901, Ward was the Assistant Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the War Office, Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Ward served as an Equerry to four successive British monarchs.{{cite book|last1=Otte|first1=T. G.|title=An Historian in Peace and War: The Diaries of Harold Temperley|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317181934|page=229|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nooHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA229|accessdate=15 November 2017|language=en}} He was appointed Equerry to King Edward VII 28 February 1902,{{London Gazette |issue=27411 |date=28 February 1902 |page=1281 }}{{cite news|title=KING EDWARD A GUEST IN HONOR OF MISS REID; Attends Engagement Dinner Given by Earl and Countess of Dudley. QUEEN WAS ALSO PRESENT The Affair Was a Court Function and Was Followed by a Large Dance.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/05/22/105006014.html?pageNumber=7|accessdate=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=22 May 1908}} and served until the King's death in 1910. He was then an Extra Equerry to King George V 1910–1936, to King Edward VIII in 1936, and to King George VI from 1937 until the following year, when he died.

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Ward's engagement to Jean Templeton Reid (1884–1962) was announced in April 1908.{{cite news|title=AMBASSADOR REID'S DAUGHTER ENGAGED; Formally Announced by Her Parents She Will Wed the Hon. John Hubert Ward. EARL OF DUDLEY'S BROTHER Equerry in Waiting to King, Racing Man, Sportsman, and Six Feet High – Wedding This Summer. Bingham Accused of Contempt.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/30/archives/ambassador-reids-daughter-engaged-formally-announced-by-her-parents.html|accessdate=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=30 April 1908}} She was the daughter of Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador to the United Kingdom,{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to the New York|title=WHITELAW REID DIES IN LONDON; Editor and Diplomat Passes Away at Dorchester House After Brief Illness.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/12/16/archives/whitelaw-reid-dies-in-london-editor-and-diplomat-passes-away-at.html|accessdate=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 December 1912}} sister of Ogden Mills Reid, a New York publisher, the granddaughter of Darius Ogden Mills, an American financier, and the niece of Ogden Mills, a prominent New York Society man.{{cite news|title=REID-MILLS.; DR. MORGAN CONDUCTS THE CEREMONY AT MR. D.O. MILLS'S HOUSE.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1881/04/27/archives/reidmills-dr-morgan-conducts-the-ceremony-at-mr-do-millss-house.html|accessdate=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=27 April 1881}}{{cite book|last1=College|first1=Radcliffe|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|date=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674627345|page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/132 132]|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|accessdate=15 November 2017|language=en}} Ward and Reid met through George Holford, also equerry-in-waiting to the King.

On 23 June 1908, the 38-year-old Ward married Reid at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace in a ceremony attended by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.{{cite news|title=MISS REID MARRIED AT ST. JAMES'S; To Mr. Ward, the Bridegroom, the King Says, "Well Done, Johnny." QUEEN KISSES THE BRIDE Brilliant Assemblage in the Chapel Royal and at Dorchester House Afterward.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/06/24/archives/miss-reid-married-at-st-jamess-to-mr-ward-the-bridegroom-the-king.html|accessdate=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=24 June 1908}} The wedding was celebrated at Dorchester House, and was one of the greatest society events of the year.{{cite news|title=MISS REID DISPLAYS 2,000 RICH PRESENTS; The President's Gift Is a Rare Old Dutch Book on America. HAS THE PLACE OF HONOR The King's Bracelet and J.P. Morgan's Necklace Lie in the Same Case – The Queen's Bracelet Near By.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/06/23/archives/miss-reid-displays-2000-rich-presents-the-presidents-gift-is-a-rare.html|accessdate=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=23 June 1908}} Together, the couple had two sons:

• Edward John Sutton Ward, {{postnominals|country=GBR|MC}} (1909–1990), who married Margaret Susan Corbett (d. 1981) in 1934. After her death, he married Marion Elizabeth Jessie Clover (d. 1997), the former wife of William Romilly, 4th Baron Romilly, in 1986. His godfather was King Edward VII.{{cite news|title=KING EDWARD AS GODFATHER.; Suggests That Ward Christening Take Place in Chapel Royal.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/04/07/archives/king-edward-as-godfather-suggests-that-ward-christening-take-place.html|accessdate=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=7 April 1909}}
• Alexander Reginald Ward (1914–1987), a Justice of the Peace for Berkshire between 1941 and 1947, who married Ilona Hollos in 1946.{{cite news|title=ILONA HOLLOS A. BRIDE; Wed in London to Alexander R. Ward, Whitelaw Reid Kin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/25/archives/ilona-hollos-a-bride-wed-in-london-to-alexander-r-ward-whitelaw.html|accessdate=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=25 April 1946}} They divorced in 1959 and he married Zena Moyra Marshall in 1967. They divorced 1969 and he married Constance Cluett Sage. He was one of the founders of Chilton Aircraft.

The Wards had a country estate, known as Chilton, in Hungerford, Berkshire. Ward died at his home, Dudley House in London, on 2 December 1938.{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special to the New York|title=SIR JOHN WARD, 68, IS DEAD IN LONDON; Whitelaw Reid's Son-in-Law Had Served Four British Sovereigns as Equerry ROYALTY AT HIS MARRIAGE Boer and World Wars Veteran Had Been Decorated by France and Italy King Pleased by Marriage Son of First Earl Member of Victorian Order|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/12/03/archives/sir-john-ward-68-is-dead-in-london-whitelaw-reids-soninlaw-had.html|accessdate=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=3 December 1938}} Lady Ward died in 1962.{{cite news|title=LADY WARD DEAD; AIDED CHARITIES; Daughter of Whitelaw Reid Was 78—Wed in Palace|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/03/archives/lady-ward-dead-aided-charities-daughter-of-whitelaw-reid-was-78wed.html|accessdate=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=3 May 1962}}

He was decorated with the award of the Officer of French Legion of Honour, Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain, Commander of the Order of Zähringer Löwen of Baden, and Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark.

Ward was also invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and as an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

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• [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw175334/Sir-John-Hubert-Ward-Hon-Robert-Arthur-Ward Photograph of Sir John Hubert Ward; Hon. Robert Arthur Ward] by Henry Peach Robinson, c. 1870s

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