William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward

William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward (1781 – 6 December 1835) was a clergyman who succeeded to the Dudley Barony.

Early life He was the son of Humble Ward and wife Susannah Beecroft. His paternal grandparents were the Rev. William Ward (younger brother of the 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward, both sons of William Ward and grandsons of Hon. William Ward, himself a younger son of the 1st Baron Ward) and Elizabeth Hawkes.

He was educated at Eton College before attending Queens' College, Cambridge. Ward served as rector at Himley, Staffordshire, before succeeding his second cousin John Ward as the 10th Baron Ward of Birmingham on 6 March 1833. Together, they were the parents of:

William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817–1885), who married Selina Constance de Burgh, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, in 1851. After her death that same year, he married Georgina Elisabeth Moncreiffe, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet and Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond (a daughter of the 11th Earl of Kinnoull), in 1865. Hon. Humble Dudley Ward (1821–1870), who Eleanor Louisa Hawkes, daughter of Thomas Hawkes, MP for Dudley, in 1843. and Amelia Maria Claughton (wife of Lt.-Col. Hon. Augustus Anson, a son of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, and after his death, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll).