Robert Ward

Col. Robert Ward PC (Ire) (14 July 1754 – March 1831), His older brothers were Nicholas Ward, 2nd Viscount Bangor and Edward Ward. Following the latter's death in 1812, he conveyed the by-that-time-insane 2nd Viscount out of his residence Castle Ward and plundered it. Ward was elected for Killyleagh in 1790 and represented it until 1798, when he was returned for Bangor, the family's customary constituency, until the Act of Union in 1801. He was appointed High Sheriff of Down for 1792–93.

Ward was a trustee of the Irish Linen Board and from 1805 was Governor of County Down. Ward won a by-election to the British House of Commons for Down in May 1812, however he did not stand in the next general election in October.

Family In May 1782, he married firstly, Sophia Frances Whaley, third daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley, and had by her four sons and a daughter. By his second wife, he had four sons and two daughters