Henry Howard, 2nd Viscount Bindon
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Henry Howard, 2nd Viscount Bindon (c. 1542 - 1590), aristocrat and courtier Henry Howard was the son of
Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon (c. 1520 – 1582), was an English peer and politician. He was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Stafford. He served as Custos Rotulorum of Dorset and Vice-Admir ...
and Elizabeth Marney, daughter of
John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney (by 1485 – 27 April 1525) of Layer Marney, Essex was an English Member of Parliament and Governor of Rochester Castle. He was the son of Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney of Layer Marney and educated in the law at L ...
of
Layer Marney Layer Marney is a village and civil parish near to Tiptree, in the Colchester borough, in the county of Essex, England. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called Layer Marney Tower and a church called Church of St Mary the Virgin. In 2001 the popu ...
and Christian Newburgh. Howard married Frances Meautys, daughter of Peter and Jane Meautys. Their daughter Douglas Howard married Sir
Arthur Gorges Sir Arthur Gorges (c. 1569 – 10 October 1625), was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset. Origins He was the son of Sir William Gorges (d.1584) of Charlton, in the parish of Wraxall in Somerset, lord of the manor ...
in 1584. Howard had mental health problems, and was in prison at the time of his daughter's marriage. Mark Girouard suggests that Howard started building
Lulworth Castle Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of t ...
in Dorset, which his younger brother
Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon (died 1611) was an English peer and politician. He was a Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 25 April 1601 – 1 March 1611, Custos Rotulorum of Dorset before 1605–1611, and Vice-Admiral ...
was completing in 1607.Mark Girouard, ''Robert Smythson & The Elizabethan Country House'' (Yale, 1983), pp. 226-8.


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1540s births 1590 deaths 16th-century English nobility Henry Howard, 2nd Viscount Howard of Bindon Year of birth uncertain Viscounts Howard of Bindon {{England-viscount-stub