{{Short description|American-born philanthropist and society hostess (1884–1962)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Jean Templeton Ward | honorific_suffix = CBE DStJ | image = File:Mrs. John Ward LCCN2014685875.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Jean Templeton Reid | birth_date = {{birth date|1884|07|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = New York City, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|05|01|1884|07|01|df=yes}} | death_place = London, England | education = | parents = Whitelaw Reid<br>Elisabeth Mills Reid | spouse = {{marriage|Sir John Hubert Ward|23 June 1908|2 December 1938|reason=his death}} | children = 2 | relatives = {{plainlist| * Ogden Mills Reid (brother) * Darius Ogden Mills (grandfather) * Ogden Mills (uncle) * Gladys Mills Phipps (cousin) * Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard (cousin) * Ogden L. Mills (cousin) }} }} {{pre-nominal styles|size=100%|pre-noms=}} '''Jean Templeton, Lady Ward''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|DStJ|sep=,}} ({{nee}} '''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 Hon. Sir John Hubert Ward, second son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley.
==Early life== Ward was a daughter of Whitelaw Reid and Elisabeth Mills Reid (1857–1931),<ref name="ElizabethObit1931">{{cite news|title=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.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E0DB1F3AE433A25753C3A9629C946094D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=30 April 1931}}</ref> Her older brother was New York publisher Ogden Mills Reid,<ref name="OMRObit1947">{{cite news|title=OGDEN MILLS REID OF HERALD TRIBUNE DIES OF PNEUMONIA; Ogden Mills Reid Dies of Pneumonia|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E2DD143EE53ABC4C53DFB766838C659EDE&legacy=true|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=4 January 1947}}</ref> who married Helen Miles Rogers.<ref name="HelenObit1970">{{cite news|title=MRS. OGDEN REID DIES HERE AT 87|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/28/archives/mrs-ogden-reid-dies-here-at-87-president-of-herald-tribune-from.html|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=28 July 1970}}</ref><ref name="OgdenMillsReid1911Wedding">{{cite news|title=OGDEN MILLS REID WEDS.; Son of Ambassador Whitelaw Reid Married to Miss Helen M. Rogers.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DE1DE1431E233A25756C1A9659C946096D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=15 March 1911}}</ref> 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.<ref name="WReidNYTObit1912">{{cite news|title=DEATH OF AMBASSADOR REID.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/12/16/archives/death-of-ambassador-reid.html|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 December 1912}}</ref> 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.<ref name="1901Musicale">{{cite news|title=MR. AND MRS. REID'S MUSICALE.; Mme. Melba and Other Artists Sing -- More than 300 Guests Present.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/02/14/archives/mr-and-mrs-reids-musicale-mme-melba-and-other-artists-sing-more.html|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=14 February 1901}}</ref> Shortly before her father's death, he hosted the Duke and Duchess of Connaught at his New York home.<ref name="ReidFame1912"/>
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.<ref name="1881Wedding">{{cite news|title=REID-MILLS.; DR. MORGAN CONDUCTS THE CEREMONY AT MR. D.O. MILLS'S HOUSE.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1881/04/27/archives/reidmills-dr-morgan-conducts-the-ceremony-at-mr-do-millss-house.html|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=27 April 1881}}</ref> Her cousins included Gladys Livingston Mills (wife of Henry Carnegie Phipps),<ref name=GLMP1970obit>{{cite news |author=Alden Whitman |title=Mrs. H.C. Phipps, Leader in Horse Racing, Dies; Wheatley Stable Owner, 87, Was Noted for Breeding of Winning Thoroughbreds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/20/archives/mrs-hc-phipps-leader-in-horse-racing-dies-wheatley-stable-owner-87.html |quote=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. |newspaper=New York Times |date=October 20, 1970 |access-date=2015-04-28 }}</ref> Beatrice Mills (wife of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard),<ref name=JBMF1972obit>{{cite news|title=Lady Granard, Daughter Of Ogden Mills, Dies at 88|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/03/archives/lady-6ranard-daughter-of-ogden-mills-dies-at-88.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=3 February 1972|access-date=18 December 2013}}</ref> Ogden Livingston Mills (the 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury who married Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd).<ref>{{cite news|title=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|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/13/archives/mills-takes-oath-as-treasury-head-ambassador-mellon-and-assistant.html|access-date=25 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=13 February 1932}}</ref><ref name="OLMWedding1924">{{cite news|title=Congressman Ogden L. Mills Is Wed to Mrs. Dorothy R. Fell by Peace Justice|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1924/09/03/archives/congressman-ogden-l-mills-is-wed-to-mrs-dorothy-r-fell-by-peace.html|access-date=25 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=3 September 1924}}</ref><ref name=OLMobit1937>{{cite news |title=Ogden Mills Dies Suddenly At 53 – Former Secretary of Treasury Is Stricken by Heart Attack in His Home Here |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/12/archives/ogden-mills-dies-suddenly-at-53-former-secretary-of-treasury-is.html |quote=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. |newspaper=New York Times |date=October 12, 1937 |access-date=2013-12-18 }}</ref>
==Personal life== Ward's engagement to the 38-year-old Hon. Sir John Hubert Ward (1870–1938),<ref name="JohnWARDObit1938"/> was announced in April 1908.<ref name="1908Engagement"/> He was the second son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley and Georgina Moncreiffe.<ref name="ReidFame1912">{{cite news|title=REID WON FAME IN MANY FIELDS; Had Been a Journalist Half a Century – Diplomat in Two European Capitals.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/12/16/archives/reid-won-fame-in-many-fields-had-been-a-journalist-half-a-century.html|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 December 1912}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward and his maternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet.<ref name="Mosley2003">{{cite book|last1=Mosley|first1=Charles|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes|date=2003|publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd.|location=Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.|page=1190|url=http://www.burkespeerage.com/|access-date=15 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Fox-Davies1895">{{cite book|last1=Fox-Davies|first1=Arthur Charles|title=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|date=1895|publisher=Jack|page=[https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies00infoxd/page/316 316]|url=https://archive.org/details/armorialfamilies00infoxd|access-date=15 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="1908Engagement">{{cite news|title=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.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/30/archives/ambassador-reids-daughter-engaged-formally-announced-by-her-parents.html|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=30 April 1908}}</ref> 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.<ref name="1908Wedding">{{cite news|title=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.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/06/24/archives/miss-reid-married-at-st-jamess-to-mr-ward-the-bridegroom-the-king.html|access-date=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=24 June 1908}}</ref> The wedding was celebrated at Dorchester House, and was considered one of the greatest society events of the year.<ref name="1908Presents">{{cite news|title=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.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/06/23/archives/miss-reid-displays-2000-rich-presents-the-presidents-gift-is-a-rare.html|access-date=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=23 June 1908}}</ref> Together, the couple had two sons:<ref name="Mosley2003"/><ref name="Peninsula2012">{{cite news |title=Lady Jean Templeton Reid Ward, daughter of Elisabeth Mills Reid |url=https://burlingamefoundingfamilies.wordpress.com/mills-introduction/lady-jean-templeton-reid-ward-elisabeth-mills-reids-daughter/ |access-date=19 March 2020 |work=Peninsula Royalty: The Founding Families of Burlingame-Hillsborough |date=8 July 2012 |language=en}}</ref>
* Edward John Sutton Ward {{postnominals|country=GBR|MC}} (1909–1990), who married Margaret Susan Corbett in 1934. After her death in 1981, he married as her fourth husband Marion Elizabeth Jessie (née Clover), third wife of William Romilly, 4th Baron Romilly, in 1986.<ref name="Mosley2003"/> His godfather was King Edward VII.<ref name="1909Godfather">{{cite news|title=KING EDWARD AS GODFATHER.; Suggests That Ward Christening Take Place in Chapel Royal.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/04/07/archives/king-edward-as-godfather-suggests-that-ward-christening-take-place.html|access-date=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=7 April 1909}}</ref> * Alexander Reginald Ward (1914–1987), a Justice of the Peace for Berkshire between 1941 and 1947, who married Ilona Hollos in 1946.<ref name="1946Wedding">{{cite news|title=ILONA HOLLOS A. BRIDE; Wed in London to Alexander R. Ward, Whitelaw Reid Kin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/25/archives/ilona-hollos-a-bride-wed-in-london-to-alexander-r-ward-whitelaw.html|access-date=15 November 2017|work=The New York Times|date=25 April 1946}}</ref> They divorced in 1959 and he married Zena Moyra Marshall in 1967. They divorced 1969 and he married Constance Cluett Sage.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
Ward was an "accomplished horsewoman... excellent musician" and fluent in several languages including German and Italian.<ref name="LadyWardObit1962"/> 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.<ref name="1912House">{{cite news |title=WARD BUYS DUDLEY HOUSE.; Son-in-Law of Ambassador Reid Gets Famous London Mansion. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/06/25/archives/ward-buys-dudley-house-soninlaw-of-ambassador-reid-gets-famous.html |access-date=19 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 June 1912}}</ref> The house, where the Wards hosted the King and Queen in 1914,{{refn|group=lower-alpha|The guests at their dinner on 11 February 1914 at Dudley House with King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra included Count Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (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 Balfour, Lady Evelyn Ward, Lord Revelstoke, the Dowager Lady Dudley (mother of the host), Mrs Whitelaw Reid (mother of the hostess), Lady Ampthill, Lord Granville and Sir Colin Keppel.<ref name="1914Visit"/>}}<ref name="1914Visit">{{cite news |title=KING AT DUDLEY HOUSE.; George and the Queen Dine with Mr. and Mrs. John Ward. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/02/12/archives/king-at-dudley-house-george-and-the-queen-dine-with-mr-and-mrs-john.html |access-date=19 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=12 February 1914}}</ref> was bombed during the War.<ref name="LadyWardObit1962"/> The Wards also had a country estate, known as Chilton, in Hungerford, Berkshire.<ref name="JohnWARDObit1938"/> For her charitable work during World War II, Lady Ward was made a Commander of the British Empire and a Dame of the Order of Saint John.<ref name="LadyWardObit1962"/>
Sir John died at their home, Dudley House in London, on 2 December 1938.<ref name="JohnWARDObit1938">{{cite news|title=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|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/12/03/archives/sir-john-ward-68-is-dead-in-london-whitelaw-reids-soninlaw-had.html|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=3 December 1938}}</ref> Lady Ward died in May 1962.<ref name="LadyWardObit1962">{{cite news|title=LADY WARD DEAD; AIDED CHARITIES; Daughter of Whitelaw Reid Was 78--Wed in Palace|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E6DB163EE03BBC4B53DFB3668389679EDE&legacy=true|access-date=24 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=3 May 1962}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw213966/Dame-Jean-Templeton-Ward-ne-Reid Jean Templeton Ward (née Reid)] at the National Portrait Gallery, London *[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/5d419184-b9ef-42bd-bbf6-5d69afb43aaf Codicils to the will of the Hon. Jean Templeton Ward (Lady Ward), CBE of Chilton, Hungerford, Berks. Dudley House, London and Kinnaird, Ballinluig, Perthshire] at The National Archives
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