Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
John Ward (1725-1788), second Viscount Dudley and Ward
1740 The first Viscount (his father, John) inherited potentially the nation's most valuable mineral estate per acre in Staffordshire and Worcestershire, most of it being underlain by a 10 yard seam of coal as well as other strata of coal, brick clay, and ironstone.
1788 Died without issue; he was succeeded by his half brother William (1750-1823)
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