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Donald Sterling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (14 June 1891 – 22 February 1959) was a
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Biography

Strathcona was the son of Robert Jared Bliss Howard and
Margaret Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal Margaret Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal (''née'' Smith; 17 January 1854 - 18 August 1926) was a British peer and medical doctor. She inherited the title from her father, the first Baron, the title having been created with a s ...
. He studied at
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and
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.The Peerage, entry for 3rd Lord Strathcona
/ref> He was elected at the 1922 general election as
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(MP) for
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, 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
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from 1931 to 1934 and as
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from 1934 to 1939.


Marriage and family

On 25 October 1922 Strathcona married
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Diana Evelyn Loder, daughter of
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and Lady Louise de Vere Beauclerk, a daughter of
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. They had five children: * Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (26 November 1923 – 18 June 2018) * Hon Barnaby John Howard (23 November 1925 – 18 December 2011) * An unnamed daughter (31 October 1927 – 3 November 1927) * Hon Jonathan Alan Howard (born 15 November 1933) * Hon Diana Catriona Howard (born 13 March 1935) On his death in 1959, he was succeeded in the peerage by his eldest son, Euan.


See also

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* Canadian Hereditary Peers


References

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ThePeerage.com


External links

* 1891 births 1959 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Canadian peers Howard, Donald Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939 Howard, Donald Howard, Donald Howard, Donald UK MPs who inherited peerages War Office personnel in World War II {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1890s-stub