John William Ward, Earl of Dudley JAMAICA SLAVER DIED 1833

Description: see description line storage 23.5 John William Ward, Earl of Dudley9th Aug 1781 - 6th May 1833 The trustees of John William Ward, Earl of Dudley (including Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter) were awarded compensation for the enslaved people on 3 estates, Whitney and Rymesbury in Clarendon and New Yarmouth in Vere, all in Jamaica. Son of William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley & Ward and Julia Bosvile, educ. Edinburgh 1797-8, Oriel Oxford 1799 (B.A. Corpus 1802), unmarried, succeeded father as 4th Viscount April 1823, created Earl of Dudley 05/10/1827. Politician and statesman, MP 1802-1823, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1827-1828. Much of his wealth flowed from his inheritance in Worcestershire and Staffordshire, with extensive coal mines, said to generate an income of £120,000. The Jamaican estates had come to him from his paternal grandmother (Mary Lady Viscountess Dudley and Ward, née Carver, q.v.). He left £350,000 in personalty. His estate passed to his cousin, whose son William Ward (1817-1885) was created 1st Earl of Dudley of the second creation in 1860 and left £1,026,000 in personalty. Ward was a student of Dugald Stewart (1753-1828, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1785-1810) during the session 1797/8. He also lived with the Stewarts while he was a student, and was a life-long correspondent with the poet, Helen D'Arcy Stewart (nee Cranstoun, 1765-1838). Dugald Stewart critiqued slavery and the slave trade and slavery in the majority of his lectures. Ward was connected to Granville Sharp and other abolitionists in London, and as a Member of Parliament for Wareham, spoke for the abolition of the slave trade. He promoted amelioration, rather than the complete abolition, of slavery, stating in 1826 that, 'Whatever might be the defects of the West-India system, it did not exhibit that uniform picture of relentless cruelty on the one side, and of despairing misery on the other.' Boyle's 1835 shows John Benbow as of 1 Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn (p. 257) with W. Yeates Alban and J.H. Benbow jun. The Earl of Dudley died at his house in Park Lane aged 52 [1833]. Trustees of Earl of Dudley closed their accounts yesterday, allowing 21 days until 27th of March Lord Ward's birthday, for the final adjustments. ..'from the 6th of March, all coal, stone or any other material, will be sold by Lord Ward. This is in accordance with the late Earl's will, so, in point of fact, Lord Ward is now in possession of his vast estates.'

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