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HOWARD, HENRY; b.; adm. May 1747 (Hawkins'); in school list 1752 (“pays above normal”). [Perhaps Cornet, 1st Dragoon Guards 30 Mar 1755; Capt., 15 Apr 1762 – still in Army list 1773] [Note “Master Howard”, Page of Honour to Duke of Cumberland and Princess Caroline, Chamberlayne 1748] [Perhaps Henry Howard, younger brother of Sir George Howard (qv); b. 14 Jan 1736; m. 6 Nov 1766 Catherine Carleton; d. 10 Sep 1811] [Alternatively, Henry Bowes Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire, elder son of William Howard, Viscount Andover MP, and Lady Mary Finch, dau. of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 10 May 1739; styled Viscount Andover 1756-7; succ. grandfather as 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire 21 Mar 1757; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Apr 1757, aged 17; MA 4 Jul 1759; DCL 13 Mar 1761; Lord Privy Seal Jan – Jun 1771; Privy Councillor 12 Jan 1771; Secretary of State for Northern Department from 12 Jun 1771; KG 3 Jun 1778; m. 1st, 24 May 1764 Hon. Maria Constantia Hampden-Trevor, dau. of Robert Hampden-Trevor, Ist Viscount Hampden (qv); m. 2nd, 14 Aug 1777 his cousin Lady Charlotte Finch, dau. of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); d. 7 Mar 1779]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.