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The title was created in January 1781 for Bernard Ward, 1st Baron Bangor, who had previously represented County Down in the Irish House of Commons. He had already been created Baron Bangor , of Castle Ward in the County of Down, in May 1770, also in the Peerage of Ireland.
The 7th and last viscount - THOMAS JAMES WARREN BULKELEY - was raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1784, but died without issue in 1822. With him the peerage became extinct, and the long line of Bulkeleys of Baron Hill, that had lasted in unbroken succession for wellnigh four centuries, was at last broken.
Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor (18 August 1719 – 20 May 1781), [1] was an Irish politician and peer. Background. He was the only surviving son of Michael Ward of Castle Ward, County Down, one of the justices of the Court of King's Bench, and his wife Anne Catharina Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton of Bangor and Lady Sophia Mordaunt. [1]
Hon Arabella Catherine Ward, granted the style and precedence of the daughter of a Viscount by Royal Warrant 1835 (d. 25 Dec 1868), mar. 1811 Capt Edward Wolstenholme, of Downbarton Manor, co. Kent.
In 1611 it was noted that ‘Sir James Hamylton, Knight, hath buylded a fayre stone house at the towne of Bangor … about 60 foot longe and 22 foote broade; the town consists of 80 newe houses, all inhabited with Scotyshmen and Englishmen’.
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Jun 28, 2022 · Bangor’s early history centres around Bangor Abbey which was established by Comgall in 558. The Abbey was widely recognised as a centre of learning and its importance is highlighted in the famous Mappa Mundie which showed Bangor as one of only four settlements on the island of Ireland.