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Howard, Richard, 1733-1818
GB-2014-WSA-09634 · Person · 1733-1818

HOWARD, RICHARD, brother of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (qv); b. 13 Nov 1733; adm. Jun 1740 (Watts'); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1750; migrated to All Souls Coll., Oxford; BCL 1757; DCL 1764; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Jun 1751, called to bar 30 May 1758; Secretary to Embassy, Venice May 1761 – Jun 1763; a Commissioner of Excise 1765-74; Receiver-General of Land Tax, Middlesex, from 1764; assumed surname of Howard in lieu of Bagot 29 Apr 1783; obtained by his marriage the Howard family estates at Ashtead, Surrey, Elford, Staffs., and Levens Hall, Westmorland; m. 20 Mar 1783 Hon. Frances Howard, only dau. of William Howard, Viscount Andover MP, and sister of Henry Bowes Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire; d. 12 Nov 1818.

GB-2014-WSA-09635 · Person · 1818-1839

HOWARD, ROBERT MANNERS, brother of Richard Henry Howard (qv); b. 20 Sep 1818; adm. 15 Jan 1830 (G); KS (Capt. ) 1833; rowed against Eton 12 May 1836, 4 May 1837; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1837, but went to Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1837; killed by a fall from a gig near Beaumaris, Anglesey 23 Oct 1839.

Howard, Thomas, 1586-1646
GB-2014-WSA-09636 · Person · 1586-1646

HOWARD, THOMAS, 2ND EARL OF ARUNDEL, only son of Philip Howard, 1st Earl of Arundel (attainted 1589), and Hon. Anne Dacre, dau. of Thomas Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gillesland; b. 7 July 1586; at school under Camden (Lloyd, Memoirs, 1677, 284; Mary F. S. Hervey, Life and Correspondence and Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1921, 15); said to have gone to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, but there is no record of his admission; restored to father’s titles of Earl of Arundel and Surrey 6 Jul 1603, and restored in blood 18 Apr 1604; introduced at court 1605; Lord Lieutenant, Sussex 1608; travelled on European continent 1609-10, acquiring an appreciation of art; installed KG 13 May 1611; Lord Lieutenant, Norfolk 18 Apr 1615; conformed to Church of England 25 Dec 1615, having previously been a Roman Catholic; Privy Councillor 16 Jul 1616; presided over committee of House of Lords in Bacon’s case Apr 1621; one of joint Commissioners of Great Seal 3 May – 10 Jul 1621; Earl Marshal of England from 29 Aug 1621; owing to his son’s clandestine marriage with Lady Elizabeth Stuart and his undisguised hostility to Duke of Buckingham, Arundel incurred displeasure of Charles I and was twice placed under restraint; restored to Privy Council in 1628 after reconciliation with King; Justice in Eyre, North of Trent, from 25 Feb 1634; sent on unsuccessful mission to Emperor Apr-Sep 1636 to urge the return of the Palatinate to the King’s nephew; General in command of army against Scots 1638; Lord Lieutenant, Cumberland 1639; Lord Steward of Household 12 Apr 1640 – Aug 1641, resigned; presided as Lord High Steward in trial of Earl of Strafford spring 1641; left England Feb 1642 and went abroad, settling in Padua, Italy; while abroad said to have contributed no less than £54, 000 to Royalist cause; his personal estate was sequestrated by Parliament; created Earl of Norfolk 6 Jun 1644; the first Englishman to form a large collection of works of art and was described by Horace Walpole as “the father of vertu in England”; the bulk of his collection of classical sculpture (the “Arundel Marbles”) was presented by his grandson to Oxford University in 1667; m. Sep 1606 Lady Aletheia Talbot, third dau. of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury; d. at Padua 24 Sep 1646. DNB.

Howard, Thomas, 1688-1702
GB-2014-WSA-09637 · Person · 1688-1702

HOWARD, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Howard, Ashtead, Surrey, Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles II, and Lady Diana Newport, sister of Hon. Francis Newport (qv); bapt. 26 Aug 1688; at school under Knipe (F. E. Paget, Some records of the Ashtead estate and its Howard possessors, 1873, folding pedigree at end); d. at school 27 Feb 1702, aged 14.

GB-2014-WSA-09638 · Person · 1835-?

HOWARD-GIBBON, HENRY FREDERICK HOWARD, son of Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon, Norroy King of Arms, and Amelia, second dau. of Stephen Cooper Dendy; b. 9 Oct 1835; adm. 3 Jun 1847; Min. Can. 1850.

GB-2014-WSA-09639 · Person · 1877-1954

Howarth, Osbert John Radclyffe, son of Osbert Henry Howarth, of Chelsea, by Mary, daughter of John Macfarlane, of Manchester; b. Nov. 18, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (H); exhibitioner 1890; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon, July 1896, matric. Oct. 1896; Univ. Scholar in Geography 1901; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1905; geographical asst. to the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1904-11; asst. secretary, British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science 1909-20, secretary since 1920; employed in the Geographical section of the Intel­ligence Dept. of the Naval Staff 1915-9; O.B.E. Jan. 1, 1920; Curator of the Darwin Memorial Downe House, Downe, Kent, 1946; Hon. Ph. D. Leeds Univ.; President of the Geographical Association 1953; author of Commercial Geography of the World (1912), and other works; m. April 28, 1909, Eleanor Katherine, daughter of Stephen Paget, F.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone; d. June 22, 1954.

GB-2014-WSA-20663 · Person · 1952-2002

Howe Browne, Stephen James, brother of Charles Andrew Howe Browne (qv); b. 21 Dec. 1952; adm. Sept. 1966 (R); left July 1970; Manchester Coll. Oxf. 1971-4; a chartered surveyor; d. 1 Nov. 2002.

Howe, ---, fl. 1716
GB-2014-WSA-09640 · Person · fl. 1716

HOWE, ---; b.; in under school list 1716.

GB-2014-WSA-09641 · Person · 1910-2013

Howe, Bernard William, brother of John Richard Howe (qv); b. 31 Oct. 1910; adm. May 1924 (G); left July 1928; FRICS; a farmer and breeder of pedigree cattle; RE (Forestry) 1940-5 (Capt.); Pres. The Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom 1984-5; m. 1942 Eileen Mary, d. of J. C. Robinson of Newick, Sussex; d. 2 Apr. 2013.

GB-2014-WSA-09642 · Person · ca. 1724-1758

HOWE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 3RD VISCOUNT HOWE (I), second son of Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (I) MP, and Mary Sophia Charlotte, Lady of Bedchamber to Augusta, Princess of Wales, dau. of Charlotte, Countess of Darlington; b.; aged (8) Nov 1732; left 1735 (but said to have been at Eton Coll. c. 1734); succeeded father as 3rd Viscount Howe (I) 29 Mar 1735; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 9 Mar 1745; Lieut. and Capt., 9 May 1746; served in Flanders as ADC to Duke of Cumberland 1747; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1 May 1749; Col. commandant 60th Foot (Royal American Regt. ) 25 Feb 1757 – Sep 1757, 55th Foot from 28 Sep 1757; Brig. -Gen. in North America 29 Dec 1757; second in command of Abercromby’s ill-fated expedition 1758; MP Nottingham from 1747; killed in skirmish with French at Trout Brook, near Ticonderoga, unm. 6 Jul 1758. Monument in North-West Tower, Westminster Abbey. DNB.