British Conservative politician
Donald Sterling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (14 June 1891 – 22 February 1959) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Early life
He was the son of Robert Jared Bliss Howard, OBE FRCS, and Margaret Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal, who inherited her title from her father, the first Baron, the title having been created with a special remainder to allow female succession. His paternal grandfather, Robert Palmer Howard, was Dean of Medicine at McGill University.[1]
He studied at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]
Career
He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cumberland North and held the seat until 1926, when he succeeded to the peerage on the death of his mother. She had inherited the title from her father, the first Baron, the title having been created with a special remainder to allow female succession.
He served in the 1930s National Government as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1931 to 1934, and as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1934 to 1939.[3]
Personal life
On 25 October 1922, he married The Honourable Diana Evelyn Loder, daughter of Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, and Lady Louise de Vere Beauclerk (a daughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans). Together, they were the parents of five children, including:[2]
- Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1923–2018), who married Lady Jane Mary Waldegrave, daughter of The 12th Earl Waldegrave, in 1954. They divorced in 1977 and he married Patricia (née Thomas), widow of John Middleton, in 1978.[2]
- The Hon. Barnaby John Howard (1925–2011), who married Elizabeth Mayfield, daughter of Frank McConnell Mayfield, in 1952. They divorced in 1967 and he married Mary-Jane Chambers, daughter of Ambrose Chambers, in 1970. After her death in 1994, he married Linda Frances Kitson, daughter of Henry James Buller Kitson, in 1996. He married Evelyn McDonald in 2006.[2]
- The Hon. Jonathan Alan Howard (b. 1933), who married Hon. Brigid Mary Westenra, daughter of William Westenra, 6th Baron Rossmore, in 1956. They divorced in 1969 and he married Cecilia Philipson in 1970.[2]
- The Hon. Diana Catriona Howard (b. 1935), who married Michael Leslie Ogilvie Faber, son of George Valdemar Faber, in 1956.[2]
On his death in 1959, he was succeeded in the peerage by his eldest son, Euan.[4]
