Greville Patrick Charles Howard, Baron Howard of Rising (born 22 April 1941) is a British Conservative politician and, before the 2010 general election, was variously an Opposition Whip and Shadow Minister for Cabinet Office, for Treasury and for Culture, Media and Sport.
Early life and career
He was educated at Eton College. Between 1968 and 1970, he was Private Secretary to Enoch Powell. Howard was further Director of Keep Trust from 1980 to 1987, of Fortress Trust from 1989 to 1993, and is Director of Fortress Holdings since 1993.
Political career
On 4 June 2004, he was created a life peer as Baron Howard of Rising, of Castle Rising in the County of Norfolk.[1][2]
A member of the influential Howard family, Howard is the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Redvers Greville Howard (1911–1978), the son of Sir Charles Alfred Howard, the second son of the Hon. Greville Howard, who was the second son of Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk.[6] His mother is Patience, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Rice Iltyd Nicholl, TD (1880–1950), a solicitor, army officer and mason.[6][7]
Lord Howard of Rising has married three times. Firstly he married Zoe Walker, daughter of Douglas Walker, in 1968. Divorced in 1972, he married secondly, Mary Rose Chichester, daughter of Sir John Chichester, 11th Baronet in 1978. After her death in 1980, Howard married again to Mary Cortland Culverwell, daughter of Robert Culverwell, one year later. He has 2 sons and 1 daughter by his third wife. Lord Howard's immediate family consists of 2 sisters. The first is his full sister, Amanda Howard. She married Simon Burton, heir to the Burton clothing company which subsequently became part of the Arcadia group. His half-sister Katharine currently resides in Spain. Her son (and therefore Howard's nephew) is the son of the famous 1960s bullfighter Miguel Mateo Salcedo.
1st issuant from a ducal coronet Or a pair of wings Gules each charged with a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchee Argent 2nd on a chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a lion statant guardant with tail extended Or ducally gorged Argent 3rd on a mount Vert a horse passant Argent holding in the mouth a slip of oak fructed Proper.
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st Gules a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchee Argent on the bend an escutcheon Or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (Howard) 2nd Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or and in chief a label of three points Argent (Thomas of Brotherton) 3rd chequy Or and Azure (Warren) 4th Gules a lion rampant Or (Fitzalan) over all at the fess point a triple turreted tower Gold.
Supporters
On either side a lion Argent each charged with a triple turreted tower Gules.
