Editing Dudley Ward (judge) (section)

==Private life and second wife==
Ward was a tall man of strong build. He stood {{convert|6|ft|6|in|m}} tall and weighed {{convert|17|stone|kg}}.<ref name="ladies' man" /> In the 1880s and 1890s, the Wards had a house in the [[Christchurch]] suburb of [[Burwood, New Zealand|Burwood]]; it was said that they "scarcely spoke to each other".<ref name="Cemetery Tour">{{cite web | url=http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Cemeteries/Burwood/BurwoodAnglicanCemetery.pdf |title=Burwood Anglican Cemetery Tour | last=Greenaway | first=Richard L. N. | date=June 2007 | publisher=[[Christchurch City Council]] | access-date=24 January 2015}}</ref> Later, they had a house in Park Terrace in the [[Christchurch Central City]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18960602.2.52.7 | title=Funeral Notices | work=[[The Press]] | date=2 June 1896 | access-date=23 January 2015 | volume=LIII | issue=9432 | page=8}}</ref> He is rumoured to have had several mistresses and [[Henry Samuel Chapman|Judge Chapman]] wrote about him:

{{cquote|a man of infamous private character, and has not the decency to conceal it <ref name="ladies' man" />}}

Ward's first wife [[Anne Ward (suffragist)|Anne Ward]] died in Christchurch on 31 May 1896 and was buried at Burwood Cemetery.<ref name="DNZB Anne Ward" /><ref>{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18960604.2.28 | title=Local and General | work=[[The Star (Christchurch)|The Star]] | date=4 June 1896 | access-date=23 January 2015 | issue=5582 | page=3}}</ref>

Ward bought a house in the [[Dunedin]] suburb of [[Maori Hill]] for one of his mistresses, the writer Frances Ellen Talbot, better known under her pseudonym Thorpe Talbot (1851–1923).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Geoff |title=Once celebrated in early Dunedin |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/once-celebrated-early-dunedin |access-date=16 October 2020 |work=[[Otago Daily Times]] |date=8 December 2015}}</ref> The house was held in the name of a farmer who Ward knew, and within a month of his wife's death, Ward's name was added to the [[Title (property)|title]].<ref name="ladies' man" /> On 6 January 1902, Ward and Talbot were married at that house, and Ward lived in it for the rest of his life.<ref name="ladies' man" />