Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor

Edward Henry Harold Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor (5 November 1905 – 8 May 1993), was an Anglo-Irish peer, journalist, war correspondent, and author. He worked under the name Edward Ward.

Early life The son of Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor, by his marriage to Agnes Elizabeth Hamilton, third daughter of Dacre Hamilton, of Cornacassa, County Monaghan, then, like his father, at Harrow and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In November 1941, he was taken prisoner by Italian forces at Tobruk following the Battle of Sidi Rezegh. He spent the rest of the Second World War as a prisoner of war in Italian and later German camps. On 31 March 1945, he was among those liberated by American forces from Oflag XII-B, a camp for officers in Hadamar near Limburg an der Lahn. He published several books, including three volumes of autobiography.

In 1991, his fourth wife committed suicide.

At the time of his death on 8 May 1993, Lord Bangor's address was 59, Cadogan Square, London SW1; and he was a member of the Savile and Garrick clubs.

Books Despatches from Finland: January–April 1940 (London: John Lane, 1940) Give Me Air (London: John Lane, 1946), about being a prisoner of war Chinese Crackers (London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1947) Europe on Record (London: Wingate, 1950), with Marjorie Ward The US and Us (1951), with Marjorie Ward Danger is Their Business (London: Cassell, 1955), with Marjorie Ward The New Eldorado: Venezuela (London: Hale, 1957) Oil is Where They Find It (London: Harrap, 1959) Sahara Story (New York: Norton, 1962) Number One Boy (London: Michael Joseph, 1969) I've Lived like a Lord (London: Michael Joseph, 1970)