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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.
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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.