Jean Templeton Ward

Jean Templeton Ward, Lady Ward CBE DGStJ (formerly Jean Templeton Reid) (13 July 1884 – 1 May 1962) was an American-born philanthropist and society hostess. The only daughter of Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambassador to the United Kingdom, she lived in London after her marriage to Sir John Hubert Ward, second son of the William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley.

Jean Templeton Ward, Lady Ward

CBE DGStJ
Personal details
Born
Jean Templeton Reid

(1884-07-13)13 July 1884
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died1 May 1962(1962-05-01) (aged 77)
London, England
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1908; died 1938)​
RelationsOgden Mills Reid (brother)
Darius Ogden Mills (grandfather)
Ogden Mills (uncle)
Gladys Mills Phipps (cousin)
Beatrice Mills Forbes, 8th Countess of Granard (cousin)
Ogden L. Mills (cousin)
ChildrenEdward John Sutton Ward
Alexander Reginald Ward
ParentsWhitelaw Reid
Elisabeth Mills Reid

Early life

She was a daughter of Whitelaw Reid and Elisabeth (née Mills) Reid (1857–1931),[1] Her older brother was New York publisher Ogden Mills Reid,[2] who married Helen Miles Rogers.[3][4] Her father served as the U.S. Minister to France (under President Benjamin Harrison) and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (under Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft) until his death in 1912.[5] Her parents were social people known for throwing lavish parties, including a musicale at their residence in Manhattan, at Madison Avenue and 50th Street, for 400 people, in 1901.[6] Shortly before her father's death, he hosted the Duke and Duchess of Connaught at his New York home.[7]

Her maternal grandparents were financier Darius Ogden Mills and Jane Templeton (née Cunningham) Mills. Her maternal uncle was financier and Thoroughbred racehorse owner Ogden Mills.[8] Her cousins included Gladys Livingston Mills (wife of Henry Carnegie Phipps),[9] Beatrice Mills (wife of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard),[10] Ogden Livingston Mills (the 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury who married Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd).[11][12][13]

Personal life

Jean's engagement to the 38-year-old Hon. Sir John Hubert Ward (1870–1938),[14] was announced in April 1908.[15] He was a son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Ward, Countess of Dudley.[7] His paternal grandfather was William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward and his maternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet.[16][17][15] They were married on 23 June 1908 at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace in a ceremony attended by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.[18] The wedding was celebrated at Dorchester House, and was considered one of the greatest society events of the year.[19] Together, the couple had two sons:[16] Together, they were the parents of:[20]

  • Edward John Sutton Ward MC (1909–1990), who married Margaret Susan Corbett in 1934. After her death in 1981, he married Marion Elizabeth Jessie Clover, the former wife of William Romilly, 4th Baron Romilly, in 1986.[16] His godfather was King Edward VII.[21]
  • Alexander Reginald Ward (1914–1987), a Justice of the Peace for Berkshire between 1941 and 1947, who married Ilona Hollos in 1946.[22] They divorced in 1959 and he married Zena Moyra Marshall in 1967. They divorced 1969 and he married Constance Cluett Sage.[16]

Jean was an "accomplished horsewoman... excellent musician" and fluent in several languages including German and Italian.[23] In 1912, Sir John paid £10,000 for Dudley House, a 44,000 square foot London townhouse that was built for his ancestor, the 6th Baron Ward.[24] The house, where the Wards hosted the King and Queen in 1914,[lower-alpha 1][25] was bombed during the War.[23] The Wards also had a country estate, known as Chilton, in Hungerford, Berkshire.[14] For her charitable work during World War II, Lady Ward was made a Commander of the British Empire and was a Dame of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.[23]

Sir John died at their home, Dudley House in London, on 2 December 1938.[14] Lady Ward died in May 1962.[23]

References
Notes
  1. The guests at their dinner on 11 February 1914 at Dudley House with King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra included Count Albert Mensdorff (the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador), the Duchess of Roxburghe, Lord and Lady Crewe, Lord and Lady Granard, Lord and Lady Ripon, the Marquis de Soveral, Mrs. Arthur Sassoon, Lord Durham, the Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, Lady Evelyn Ward, Lord Revelstoke, Georgina, Lady Dudley (mother of the host), Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (mother of the hostess), Lady Ampthill, Lord Granville, Sir Colin Keppel.[25]
Sources
  1. Times, Special Cable To The New York (30 April 1931). "MRS. WHITELAW REID IS DEAD IN FRANCE; Widow of the Former U.S. Ambassador to England a Victim of Pneumonia.A FAMOUS PHILANTHROPIST Made Lavish Gifts to Many Causes--Hostess to Royalty DuringBrilliant London Career. Services in Paris Likely". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. "OGDEN MILLS REID OF HERALD TRIBUNE DIES OF PNEUMONIA; Ogden Mills Reid Dies of Pneumonia". The New York Times. 4 January 1947. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  3. Times, Special To The New York (28 July 1970). "MRS. OGDEN REID DIES HERE AT 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  4. Times, Special To The New York (15 March 1911). "OGDEN MILLS REID WEDS.; Son of Ambassador Whitelaw Reid Married to Miss Helen M. Rogers". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  5. "DEATH OF AMBASSADOR REID". The New York Times. 16 December 1912. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  6. "MR. AND MRS. REID'S MUSICALE.; Mme. Melba and Other Artists Sing -- More than 300 Guests Present". The New York Times. 14 February 1901. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  7. "REID WON FAME IN MANY FIELDS; Had Been a Journalist Half a Century – Diplomat in Two European Capitals". The New York Times. 16 December 1912. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  8. "REID-MILLS.; DR. MORGAN CONDUCTS THE CEREMONY AT MR. D.O. MILLS'S HOUSE". The New York Times. 27 April 1881. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  9. Alden Whitman (October 20, 1970). "Mrs. H.C. Phipps, Leader in Horse Racing, Dies; Wheatley Stable Owner, 87, Was Noted for Breeding of Winning Thoroughbreds". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-04-28. Mrs. Gladys Mills Phipps, widow of Henry Carnegie Phipps and celebrated for many years as the First Lady of the Turf, died yesterday after a short illness at Spring Hill, her Westbury, L. I., estate. The New York and Palm Beach society leader and owner of Wheatley Stable was 87 years old.
  10. "Lady Granard, Daughter Of Ogden Mills, Dies at 88". New York Times. 3 February 1972. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  11. Times, Special To The New York (13 February 1932). "Mills Takes Oath as Treasury Head – Ambassador Mellon and Assistant Secretary Ballantine Are Sworn In at the Same Time – Crowd Attends Ceremony – Hoover, in Accepting Mellon's Formal Resignation, Commends His Long Public Service". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  12. Times, Special To The New York (3 September 1924). "Congressman Ogden L. Mills Is Wed to Mrs. Dorothy R. Fell by Peace Justice". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  13. "Ogden Mills Dies Suddenly At 53 – Former Secretary of Treasury Is Stricken by Heart Attack in His Home Here". New York Times. October 12, 1937. Retrieved 2013-12-18. Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary of the Treasury and a Republican party leader often suggested as a possible Presidential nominee, died suddenly yesterday of a heart attack in his home at 2 East Sixtyninth Street.
  14. Times, Special to the New York (3 December 1938). "SIR JOHN WARD, 68, IS DEAD IN LONDON; Whitelaw Reid's Son-in-Law Had Served Four British Sovereigns as Equerry ROYALTY AT HIS MARRIAGE Boer and World Wars Veteran Had Been Decorated by France and Italy King Pleased by Marriage Son of First Earl Member of Victorian Order". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  15. "AMBASSADOR REID'S DAUGHTER ENGAGED; Formally Announced by Her Parents She Will Wed the Hon. John Hubert Ward. EARL OF DUDLEY'S BROTHER Equerry in Waiting to King, Racing Man, Sportsman, and Six Feet High – Wedding This Summer. Bingham Accused of Contempt". The New York Times. 30 April 1908. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  16. Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 1190. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  17. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Jack. p. 316. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  18. "MISS REID MARRIED AT ST. JAMES'S; To Mr. Ward, the Bridegroom, the King Says, "Well Done, Johnny." QUEEN KISSES THE BRIDE Brilliant Assemblage in the Chapel Royal and at Dorchester House Afterward". The New York Times. 24 June 1908. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  19. "MISS REID DISPLAYS 2,000 RICH PRESENTS; The President's Gift Is a Rare Old Dutch Book on America. HAS THE PLACE OF HONOR The King's Bracelet and J.P. Morgan's Necklace Lie in the Same Case – The Queen's Bracelet Near By". The New York Times. 23 June 1908. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  20. "Lady Jean Templeton Reid Ward, daughter of Elisabeth Mills Reid". Peninsula Royalty: The Founding Families of Burlingame-Hillsborough. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  21. "KING EDWARD AS GODFATHER.; Suggests That Ward Christening Take Place in Chapel Royal". The New York Times. 7 April 1909. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  22. "ILONA HOLLOS A. BRIDE; Wed in London to Alexander R. Ward, Whitelaw Reid Kin". The New York Times. 25 April 1946. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  23. "LADY WARD DEAD; AIDED CHARITIES; Daughter of Whitelaw Reid Was 78--Wed in Palace". The New York Times. 3 May 1962. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  24. "WARD BUYS DUDLEY HOUSE.; Son-in-Law of Ambassador Reid Gets Famous London Mansion". The New York Times. 25 June 1912. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  25. TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (12 February 1914). "KING AT DUDLEY HOUSE.; George and the Queen Dine with Mr. and Mrs. John Ward". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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