Sir Edward Stafford Howard (28 November 1851 – 8 April 1916), was a British

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politician and magistrate.

Background and education

A member of the influential

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headed by the

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, Howard was the second son of Henry Howard, son of

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and nephew of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. His mother was Charlotte Caroline Georgina Long, daughter of Henry Lawes Long and

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of Hampton Lodge, Surrey. He was the younger brother of Henry Howard and the elder brother of Lord Howard of Penrith. He was educated at Harrow School and

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. He was called to the bar at

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Political career

Howard entered Parliament as one of two representatives for

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at a by-election in 1876, a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished under the

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. At the 1885 general election, he was elected as MP for Thornbury until he was defeated at the 1886 election. He served briefly as

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from April to July 1886 in

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's short-lived third administration. Howard was later Senior Commissioner of HM's Woods and Forests. He was appointed a Companion of the

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(CB) in the

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and a Knight Commander of the

(KCB) in the

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. He served as Mayor of the town of

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from 1913 to 1916. He was an

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from 1914 to his death. He was also a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of

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Family

Photo of Alcy Cowell-Stepney (1876-1952)

Howard married firstly Lady Rachel Anne Georgina, daughter of

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, in 1876. She died in 1906, leaving one son, Sir Algar Howard, an officer at arms at the

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in London, and two daughters, Ruth and Alianore.

Lady Howard Stepney

He married secondly, in 1911, Catharine Meriel, MBE, only child of Sir Emile Algernon Arthur K. Cowell-Stepney, 11th/2nd and last Baronet, by hon. Margaret Warren, fourth daughter of the second baron de Tabley. After Howard's death, at the age of 64 in 1916, Lady Howard served the remainder of his term as Mayor of Llanelly. She was a JP from 1920; a Carmarthenshire County Councillor; and a Dame of the Order of St. John. She lived at Cily or Cilymaenllwyd, Llanelly, and at Woodend, South Ascot. Her telephone numbers were ''Llanelly 2'' and ''Ascot 37''. She was a member of the Ladies' Hyde Park and Bath clubs.Kelly's Handbook 1936 She was granted authority, by royal licence, to take additional surname of Stepney in 1922, and died on 8 June 1952.

Youngest daughter

Margaret Catherine ''Marged'' Stepney Howard Stepney (London, 20 January 1913-London, 22 January 1953), of Cilymaenllwyd, Llanelly, and Chase End, Compton Avenue, Hampstead Lane, London, was the daughter of Sir Stafford by his second wife, ''Alcyone'' Cowell-Stepney. She married in 1933 Patrick Wyndham Murray-Threipland (1904-1957), only son of Colonel

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, had one son and divorced in 1938. In later life she was a friend and patron of Dylan Thomas.

Younger Son

Captain Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard, (3 September 1915 – 1991). Changed his surname from Howard-Stepney to Howard by deed poll in August 1950, on inheriting the family estates in Cumbria, which included

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. He stood, unsuccessfully, twice for Parliament in the Liberal interest, in

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in 1950 and in 1951 the Penrith and the Border constituency. He was however a parish and county councillor, chairman of Penrith and Border Liberal Party, chairman of the Ullswater Outward Bound Trust, served on the Lake District Planning Board and the Ullswater Preservation Society, and was High Sheriff of Cumbria in 1979. He married, firstly, Ursula Priscilla Marie Gabrielle, daughter of Colonel Sir James Nockells Horlick, 4th Bt., on 15 July 1936 (they divorced in 1940), and secondly, Mary Gracia (1913-2004), daughter of George Wilder Neville, of Portsmouth, Virginia and New York City, on 24 October 1940. Gracia became a trustee of the Shrewsbury Hospital in Sheffield in 1965. By his first wife he had the GCHQ operative and mathematician Nicholas Stafford Howard (20 Jul 1937-17 Feb 2008), of Johnby Hall, Penrith,Cumberland & Westmorland Herald: http://www.cwherald.com/a/archive/death-at-70-of-a-giant-of-mathematics-who-loved-music.304561.html and by his second he had two daughters and a further son Lt.-Col. Murray Bernard Neville Cyprian Howard, OBE (b 1942-), who inherited

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