Lieutenant-General Emanuel Scrope Howe (c. 1663 – 26 September 1709), of The Great Lodge,

Alice Holt Forest Alice Holt Forest is a royal forest in Hampshire, situated some south of Farnham, Surrey. Once predominantly an ancient oak forest, it was particularly noted in the 18th and 19th centuries for the timber it supplied for the building of ships ...

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, was an English diplomat, army officer, and

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Life

He was the fourth son of

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(1625–1679) of

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, the younger son of

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. His older brother,

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, was a prominent Whig politician, raised to the peerage in 1701. Emanuel Howe was appointed a

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in 1689 as reward for his support for

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, and held the office throughout the king's reign. Howe was also given a commission in the

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, and served in Flanders where he was wounded at the

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. He purchased a colonelcy in 1695, and was Colonel of the

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until his death. He was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1704, Major-General in 1707 and Lieutenant-General in the year of his death, 1709. He was First Commissioner of Prizes from 1703 to 1705, and envoy-extraordinary to the

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between 1705 and 1709, successfully overcoming the strained relations between the English and Hanoverian reigning families to keep Hanover in the Grand Alliance. He entered Parliament in 1701 as member for

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, elected as a placeman on the Earl of Carlisle's interest to support the

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, and in 1705 also represented

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. He is recorded as taking part in only one debate.

Ranger of the Royal Forest of Alice Holt

left, Ruperta Howe He married Ruperta Howe, the natural daughter of

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, in 1695. They were jointly appointed "Rangers of

" from 1699 onwards, a grace-and-favour

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. They had three sons and two daughters. After Howe's death, Ruperta continued as "Ranger of The Holt" until 1740. Scrope-Howe was not pleased when, having spent £1,200 on repairs to the Great Lodge as requested by King William, the King repeatedly refused to repay him. He attempted some ambitious re-introductions in the Forest, including wild boar and, moving beyond simple re-introductions, even buffalo, but these succumbed to the poaching which was endemic in Alice Holt and neighbouring Woolmer Forest at the time. Ruperta planted an oak tree near the Lodge in memory of her late father, Prince Rupert, which was replaced in the 1960s by a memorial stone. The present Lodge building dates from the 1810s but stands on the site of the Great Lodge occupied by Emanuel and Ruperta.

Notes

References

* * David W Hayton, Stuart Handley and Eveline Cruickshanks, ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690–1715'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) * Robert Walcott, ''English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)

External links

* * History of Parliament onlin
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/howe-emanuel-scrope-1663-1709
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