(1725 - 88), 1st s. of 6th B. Ward (cr. Vct. Dudley and Ward); Oriel Oxf. 1743; MP 1754 - 74; suc. fa. 1774 as 2nd Vct.; m. 1788 Mary Baker, wid. of Gamaliel Fair.
1751 - 2 Rome (by Mar. 1751 - Apr. 1752), Capua (30 Apr.), Naples (May. - Jun.) [Dresden, Berlin, Aug.]
Ward, 'his classics in one pocket and quoting his authors', had been at The Hague with Lord Charlemont before coming to Italy, where they were again together.1 Ward was in Rome by March 1751, preparing to play the part of Virtue on the Triumphal Car devised by Charlemont for the Carnival (see Charlemont), and he appears in two of the caricature groups (NGI) painted by Reynolds (with Sir Thomas Kennedy, Lord Charlemont, Phelps, Lord Bruce, Joseph Leeson and Joseph Henry), as well as in a caricature drawn by P.L. Ghezzi, again with Kennedy (Sotheby's, 23 Mar. 1972). At Easter 1752 Ward was listed living in the Piazza di Spagna,2 and in May that year he subscribed to Charlemont's Academy for British artists in Rome (see John Parker).3 By then he was in Naples, having passed through Capua on 30 April4 and in June he was describing to Charlemont in Rome the progress of the excavations at Herculaneum.5 In August he was reported to have left Dresden for Berlin.6 Pancrazi dedicated a plate in his Antichita Siciliane [1751 - 2] to 'Giovanni Ward'.
1. O'Connor 1983, 15. 2. AVR sa, S.Lorenzo in Lucina. 3. GM, 22[1752]:288. 4. ASN cra 1257. 5. HMC Charlemont, 1:185 (10 Jun. 1752; letter identified by C. O'Connor). 6. Ibid., 186.