Dudley Ward (judge)


Charles Dudley Robert Ward , known as Dudley Ward, was a New Zealand judge and a member of parliament. His first wife, Anne Ward, was a prominent suffragist.

Ward was born at sea on board HMS Primrose in the Atlantic Ocean onJuly 1827. He was the eldest son of diplomat, politician, and later governor of Ceylon, Sir Sir Henry George Ward GCMG and Emily Swinburne, and a cousin of William Ward and William George Ward. He was educated at Rugby School and at Wadham College, Oxford and completed his legal education at the Inner Temple being called to the Bar in 1853. His grandfathers were Robert Plumer Ward and Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet.

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