Georgina Ward (actress)

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rdf:langString The Honourable Georgina Anne Ward (1941–2010) was a British stage, film and television actress. She was the daughter of the politician George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley. Her paternal grandfather William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, whose second wife was the actress Gertie Millar, was a member of Lord Salisbury’s government and later Governor-General of Australia. His mother, Georgina’s great-grandmother, was the noted Victorian beauty Georgina Moncreiffe, Countess of Dudley, whose sister Harriet’s flirtation with the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, led to his becoming embroiled in a scandalous divorce case. Ward studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and had a number of “walk on”parts with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among her leading roles on stage was in Strindberg’s Miss Julie in London in 1965. During the 1960s and into the 70s, she appeared in episodes of a number of popular British TV series, often in nefarious roles, and also in films. In the early 70s Ward was a potential Labour candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Worcester, then held by Conservative Cabinet minister, Peter Walker and, until 1960, by her father, also a Conservative, who was a minister in Harold Macmillan’s government. However she stood down after photographs of her in the film “Clinic Exclusive” appeared in the press. Ward’s first husband, the journalist Alastair Forbes (1918-2005), whom she married in 1966, was uncleof US Democratic Senator John Kerry. Their marriage was dissolved in 1971. Ward later lived in Mexicowith her second husband, Patrick Tritton (born 1934), an old Etonian and graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, whom she married in 1978 and was believed to have been the model for Dicky Umfraville in novelist Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. He died on 1 February 1998. Ward was the cousin once removed of actress Rachel Ward.

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