Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...

Hon. Frederick Howard (6 December 1785 – 18 June 1815) was a

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officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was killed at the

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. He is the "young, gallant Howard" mentioned in

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's poem "

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Biography

One of 10 children, Howard was the third of four sons of

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (28 May 1748 – 4 September 1825) was a British peer, statesman, diplomat, and author. Life He was the son of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and his second wife Isabella Byron. His mother was a ...

, and Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Stafford. His eldest brother,

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, succeeded their father as the 6th Earl of Carlisle in 1825, his elder brother William Howard was a

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MP, and his youngest brother, the Very. Rev. Henry Howard, was

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. He had six sisters, including Elizabeth, Duchess of Rutland. Howard, who commanded a squadron of the 10th Hussars in Vivian's Brigade, was killed leading a charge at the very end of the Battle of Waterloo. It is likely he was the last Anglo-Allied officer to be killed.Adkin, Mark (2001). The Waterloo Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Land Battle. London: Aurum Press. . Page 222 He was buried at Waterloo, but on 3 August 1815 his body was disinterred and re-interred in

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. In 1879, his remains were moved again and re-interred in the family mausoleum at

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, Yorkshire.

Family

On 6 August 1811, Howard married Frances Susan Lambton, the only daughter of MP

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, of Lambton Hall, Durham, and sister of the 1st Earl of Durham. They had one son before his death,

Frederick John Howard Frederick John Howard (1 March 1814 – 28 February 1897) was a British Member of Parliament. Biography Howard, born on 1 March 1814, was the eldest son of Major the Hon. Frederick Howard, third son of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle. H ...

(1814–1897), and a second son, Villiers Frederick Francis Howard (16 November 1815 – 30 November 1823), who was born after his father's death but died in childhood. After his death, his widow remarried

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in 1819, and had a further six children.

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