Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick (died 24 April 1675) was an English nobleman and Parliamentarian. Howard was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk. He was knighted KB in 1616, when

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became

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. In 1624 he was elected Member of Parliament for Calne and for Wallingford and chose to sit for Calne. On the death of his father in 1626, he inherited an estate in Tollesbury, Essex. He was elected MP for

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in 1628 but created Baron Howard of Escrick on 12 April 1628. Howard was one of the twelve peers who signed a petition in August 1640, opposing Charles I's expedition into Scotland. In May 1641 he was one of 10 peers selected to serve on a committee to investigate the first Army Plot. He was very active in the early parts of the

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. He was one of the ten Lords selected to attend the Westminster Assembly of Divines along with 20 Commoners as lay assessor, and was often employed in negotiations with Scottish officials. However, he was left off the Committee of Both Kingdoms and generally seems to play less of a role in the coming years. After the abolition of the House of Lords in 1649, he sat in the Commons as member for

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and served on the

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. In 1651 he was expelled from parliament for corruption. He sold Escrick in 1668. Howard married Mary Butler, daughter of John Boteler and Elizabeth Villiers, at York House on 30 November 1623.John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 4 (London, 1828), p. 927. His wife's mother was the half-sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, to whom Howard was deemed to have owed his elevation to the peerage. They had two sons, Thomas, 2nd Baron Howard of Escrick, who married Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough, and William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick, notorious both as a rebel and as an informer and double agent.

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* Year of birth missing 1675 deaths 1 Younger sons of earls Lay members of the Westminster Assembly Edward Howard, 01st Baron Howard of Escrick English MPs 1624–1625 English MPs 1628–1629 English MPs 1648–1653 Expelled legislators {{1648-England-MP-stub