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Mowbray Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham (29 November 1905 – 22 February 1996), styled Lord Howard from 1927 to 1946, was a British peer. He was born on 29 November 1905 to Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham, and Rosamond Margare ...

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Edward Howard, 8th Earl of Effingham Edward Mowbray Nicholas Howard, 8th Earl of Effingham (born 11 May 1971) is a hereditary peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom and an elected Conservative member of the House of Lords. He is also the 18th Baron Howard of Effingham, being a d ...

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from 1996 until 1999. A Deputy Lieutenant of Essex, he was president of the Royal British Legion.

Early life

The son of John Algernon Frederick Charles Howard, a younger son of

Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham Gordon Frederick Henry Charles Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham (18 May 1873 – 7 July 1946) was an English peer and member of the House of Lords. The son of Hon. Frederick Charles Howard and grandson of Henry Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, he inheri ...

, and his wife Suzanne Patricia Macassey, the young Howard was educated at Fettes College and the

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Career

From Dartmouth, Howard was commissioned as a career officer into the

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, ultimately rising to the rank of

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. In his later career, he was an intelligence officer and developed expertise in new forms of intelligence-gathering. On 22 February 1996, Commander Howard succeeded an uncle, Mowbray Howard, as

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in the

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(1837) and as Baron Howard of Effingham in the

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(1554). He was appointed by

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as a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex and was elected as president of the Royal British Legion.

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, vol. 1 (2003), p. 1277 Effingham's seat in the Lords as a hereditary peer came to an end as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999. In 2018 he stood in a by-election for one of the ninety seats in the House of Lords reserved for hereditary peers, saying in his supporting statement:Sarah Newey
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Private life

On 10 October 1964, Howard married Anne Mary Sayer, daughter of Harrison Sayer. They were divorced in 1975, after having a son: * Edward Mowbray Nicholas Howard (born 1971), later 8th Earl of Effingham. On 29 December 1992, seventeen years after his divorce, Howard married Elizabeth Jane Eccleston, daughter of Dennis Eccleston. As of 2003, the couple were living at Readings Farmhouse, Blackmore End, Wethersfield, Essex. Lord Effingham died on 26 February 2022, at the age of 82. He was succeeded by his son, Edward Howard.The Earl of Effingham, naval officer who developed expertise in the latest intelligence-gathering methods
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