Honorific Prefix: | His Grace |
The Duke of Norfolk | |
Spouse: | Augusta Lyons, daughter of Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons |
Children: | 11, including: Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk Lady Philippa Stewart Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent |
Family: | Howard |
Father: | Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk |
Mother: | Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower |
Office1: | Earl Marshal |
Monarch1: | Victoria |
Term Start1: | 18 February 1856 |
Term End1: | 25 November 1860 |
Predecessor1: | The 13th Duke of Norfolk |
Successor1: | The 15th Duke of Norfolk |
Office2: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start2: | 18 February 1856 |
Term End2: | 25 November 1860 Hereditary Peerage |
Predecessor2: | The 13th Duke of Norfolk |
Successor2: | The 15th Duke of Norfolk |
Office3: | Member of Parliament for Limerick City |
Term Start3: | 1851 |
Term End3: | 1852 |
Office4: | Member of Parliament for Arundel |
Term Start4: | 1837 |
Term End4: | 1851 |
Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, (né Howard; 7 November 181525 November 1860) was a British peer and politician. He was hereditary Earl Marshal and the last undisputed Chief Butler of England.
He was the son of Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower.
He married Augusta Lyons (1821 - 1886), of the Lyons family, on 19 June 1839. She was the daughter of Sir Edmund Lyons (later 1st Baron Lyons) and Augusta Louisa Rogers, and was often known by her middle name, "Minna". The Duke had eleven children by Augusta. The Duke and Duchess are both buried in the mausoleum in Fitzalan Chapel on the western grounds of Arundel Castle.
His surname at birth was Howard; by royal licence dated 26 April 1842, his father (then Duke) added "Fitzalan" before his children's surnames, 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.[1]
Howard was returned as a Whig for Arundel in the British House of Commons from 1837 to 1851, and for Limerick City from 1851 to 1852. He was a devoted Roman Catholic, and resigned from his Arundel seat rather than support the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851, but secured the Limerick seat when its incumbent, John O'Connell, resigned in his favour. He edited the Lives of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his wife (1857 and 1861). He raised the 9th (Arundel) Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps on 28 February 1860 and commanded it as Captain.[2]
The Norfolk Royale Hotel in Bournemouth was originally built as a villa for the duke.[3]
Name | Birth | Death | Notes | |
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Lady Victoria Alexandrina Fitzalan-Howard | 1840 | 1870 | Married 1861, James Robert Hope-Scott | |
Lady Minna Charlotte Fitzalan-Howard | 1843 | 1921 | Carmelite nun | |
Lady Mary Adeliza Fitzalan-Howard | 1845 | 1925 | ||
Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk | 1847 | 1917 | 15th Duke of Norfolk | |
Lady Etheldreda Fitzalan-Howard | 1849 | 1926 | Sister of Charity | |
Lady Philippa Fitzalan-Howard | 1852 | 1946 | Married 1888, Sir Edward Stewart, had 6 children. (1857–1948) | |
Philip Thomas Fitzalan-Howard | 1853 | 1855 | ||
Lord Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard | 1855 | 1947 | Created Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent; Married 1879, Lady Mary Caroline Bertie (1859 - 1938) | |
Lady Anne Fitzalan-Howard | 1857 | 1931 | Married 1878, Maj-Gen. Lord Ralph Drury Kerr (1837 - 1916), son of the 7th Marquess of Lothian | |
Lady Elizabeth Mary Fitzalan-Howard | 1859 | 1859 | ||
Lady Margaret Fitzalan-Howard | 1860 | 1899 | Founded the Catholic Social Union |