Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk explained

Honorific-Prefix:His Grace
The Duke of Norfolk
Order1:Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
Term Start1:6 July 1841
Term End1:30 August 1841
Monarch1:Queen Victoria
Primeminister1:The Viscount Melbourne
Predecessor1:The Earl of Ilchester
Successor1:The Marquess of Lothian
Order2:Master of the Horse
Term Start2:11 July 1846
Term End2:21 February 1852
Monarch2:Queen Victoria
Primeminister2:Lord John Russell
Predecessor2:The Earl of Jersey
Successor2:The Earl of Jersey
Order3:Lord Steward of the Household
Term Start3:4 January 1853
Term End3:10 January 1854
Monarch3:Queen Victoria
Primeminister3:The Earl of Aberdeen
Predecessor3:The Duke of Montrose
Successor3:The Earl Spencer
Office4:Earl Marshal
Monarch4:Queen Victoria
Term Start4:16 March 1842
Term End4:18 February 1856
Predecessor4:Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk
Successor4:Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk
Office5:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start5:16 March 1842
Term End5:18 February 1856
Predecessor5:Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk
Successor5:Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk
Nationality:British
Party:Whig
Spouse:Lady Charlotte Leveson-Gower
Children:Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop
Mary Foley, Baroness Foley
Lord Bernard Fitzalan-Howard
Lady Adeliza Manners
Parents:Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk
Lady Elizabeth Belasyse

Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, (12 August 179118 February 1856), styled Earl of Surrey between 1815 and 1842, was a British Whig politician and peer.

Background

Norfolk was the son of Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg.[1] He gained the courtesy title Earl of Surrey when his father succeeded as Duke of Norfolk in 1815.

Political career

On 4 May 1829 Norfolk, then Earl of Surrey, was elected to the House of Commons for Horsham. When he took his seat he became the first Roman Catholic to sit in the House after Catholic emancipation.[2] Surrey held the Horsham seat until 1832,[3] and then represented West Sussex between 1832 and 1841.[4] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1837 and served under Lord Melbourne as Treasurer of the Household between 1837 and 1841. In the latter year he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Maltravers, and served briefly under Melbourne as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between July and August 1841. The following year he succeeded his father in the dukedom of Norfolk.

When the Whigs returned to office under Lord John Russell in 1846, Norfolk was made Master of the Horse, a position he retained until the government fell in 1852. He later served as Lord Steward of the Household in Lord Aberdeen's coalition government between 1853 and 1854. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1848.

In 1854, Norfolk agreed to lease land to Sheffield Cricket Club near Bramall Lane for ninety-nine years, a site which is now home to Sheffield United.

Family

Norfolk married Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower, daughter of George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, in 1814. They had five children:

By royal licence dated 26 April 1842, Howard added "Fitzalan" before his children's surnames (but not his own), so they all became Fitzalan-Howard, which surname their male-line descendants have borne ever since. Their ancestor, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, married Mary FitzAlan (daughter and heiress of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel) in 1555.[5] Norfolk died in February 1856, aged 64, and was succeeded in the dukedom by his eldest son, Henry; his wife Charlotte died in July 1870.

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Notes and References

  1. Mosley, Charles (ed.) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 2. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 2911.
  2. History of Parliament 1820-1832 vol I p. 253.
  3. Web site: leighrayment.com House of Commons: Horncastle to Hythe . 11 November 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20121219110655/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons4.htm . 19 December 2012 .
  4. Web site: leighrayment.com House of Commons: Sudbury to Swindon South . 11 November 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20180818113510/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons6.htm . 18 August 2018 .
  5. Mosley (ibid). Page 2821.