Henry Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk

Henry Bowes Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, 4th Earl of Berkshire (4 November 1687[1] – 21 March 1757) was an English peer from the Howard family.

He was the son of Craven Howard and his second wife, Mary Bowes, and baptised three days after birth at St Anne's Church, Soho.[1]

His paternal grandfather, Hon. William Howard, was the fourth son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire[2]

On 12 April 1706, he succeeded his great-uncle, Thomas, as Earl of Berkshire. After the death of Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk in 1718, he was appointed Deputy Earl Marshal, an office he held until 1725. In 1745, he succeeded a distant cousin in the older title of Earl of Suffolk, and became Recorder of Lichfield in 1755.[3]

Marriage and issue

Suffolk married his first cousin Catherine Graham, daughter of his aunt Dorothy Howard and Col. James Grahme, on 5 March 1709. They had three daughters and six sons, but only three survived to adulthood:[4]

  • Lady Diana Howard (13 January 1710 – buried 27 January 1712), buried at Charlton Park, Wiltshire
  • Henry Howard, Viscount Andover (31 December 1710 – buried 5 May 1717), died young
  • Hon. James Howard (5 January 1712 – buried 24 December 1715), died young
  • William Howard, Viscount Andover (1714–1756), father of 12th Earl
  • Lady Catherine Howard (29 January 1716 – 18 October 1723), died young
  • Hon. Charles Howard (1719 – 28 September 1773)
  • Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk (1721–1783)
  • Hon. Graham Howard (27 October 1722 – 1737)
  • Lady Frances Howard (17 June 1725 – buried 27 August 1730)

His son William having been killed in a chaise accident in the previous year, he was succeeded on his death in 1757 by his grandson Henry.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Westminster, London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558–1812
  2. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3815. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  3. ^ Doyle, James Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations. Longmans, Green. p. 456. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  4. ^ Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812
Political offices
Preceded by Deputy Earl Marshal
1718–1725 		Succeeded by
Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Suffolk
1745–1757 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Earl of Berkshire
1706–1757