Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk.

Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk, 7th Earl of Berkshire (11 January 1721 – 3 February 1783)[1] was a British peer, styled Hon. Thomas Howard until 1779.

Life

A younger son of Henry Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, he was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and received his MA in 1741.[2] Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1744, he succeeded his elder brother William Howard, Viscount Andover as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Castle Rising in 1747. He represented Castle Rising until 1768, when he was returned for Malmesbury; he continued there until 1774, when he sat for Mitchell. He left the House of Commons in 1779, when he succeeded his great-nephew Henry as Earl of Suffolk. He became a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1779.[1]

Upon his death in 1783, he was succeeded by a distant cousin, John.[3]

Ashtead Park, Surrey - Howard family seat to 1789

Family

On 13 April 1747, Howard married Elizabeth Kingscote (b. 7 Mar 1721/22, d. 22 Jun 1769) on 13 August 1747 at Temple Church, London, by whom he had one daughter:[3]

The earl also had a natural daughter, Margaret Southwell, who on 27 March 1794 married, in Calcutta, Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet with whom she had seven sons and a daughter.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Howard, Hon. Thomas (1721-83), of Ashtead Park, Surr., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Howard, Thomas (3)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ a b Burke, John (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn & Company. p. 955.
  4. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 102, Part 1, Volume 151. F. Jefferies. 1832. p. 270.
Parliament of Great Britain Preceded byViscount AndoverRichard Rigby Member of Parliament for Castle Rising 1747–1768 With: The Lord Luxborough 1747–1754Hon. Horace Walpole 1754–1757Charles Boone 1757–1768 Succeeded byThomas WhatelyJenison Shafto Preceded byThomas ConollyThe Earl Tylney Member of Parliament for Malmesbury 1768–1774 With: The Earl of Donegall Succeeded byHon. Charles James FoxWilliam Strahan Preceded byJohn StephensonJames Scawen Member of Parliament for Mitchell 1774–1779 With: John Stephenson Succeeded byJohn StephensonFrancis Hale Peerage of England Preceded byHenry Howard Earl of Suffolk,Earl of Berkshire 1779–1783 Succeeded byJohn Howard


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