Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk (18 July 1627 – 10 December 1709) was the youngest son of
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, but inherited the title because none of his brothers left surviving sons.
He married three times:
*By his first wife Mary daughter and heiress of
Andrew Stewart, 3rd Baron Castle Stewart
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, he had three sons :
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Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk
Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk, 1st Earl of Bindon PC (1670 – 19 September 1718) was an English nobleman, styled Lord Walden from 1691 to 1706.
Lord Howard was born in London, the son of Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk. He was admitted to ...
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Edward Howard, 8th Earl of Suffolk
Edward Howard, 8th Earl of Suffolk (1672 - 22 Jun 1731) was an English peer.
Edward Howard was the second son of Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk, and his wife Mary Stewart. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He succeeded his neph ...
, and
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Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk
Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk (1685 – 28 September 1733) was an English nobleman and politician, styled Hon. Charles Howard from 1691 to 1731.
The third son of Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk, he was commissioned a captain in Echlin ...
*His second wife was Mary Ronkswood, a widow.
*Mary (died 1721), daughter of Rev. Ambrose Upton, canon of
Christ Church, Oxford
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.
Mary Ronkswood advanced £500 (shortly before her marriage) towards the capital of the
lead smelt
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* Smelting, chemical process
* The common name of various fish:
** Smelt (fish), a family of small fish, Osmeridae
** Australian smelt in the family Retropinnidae and species ''Retropinna semoni''
** Big-scale sand smelt ''At ...
ing enterprise of
Sir Clement Clerke and his son
Talbot
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, using
reverberatory furnaces. However, her husband and her partner in the enterprise,
Lord Grandison, were suspicious of the Clerkes. The result was that the enterprise was the subject of litigation, which continued until after Henry Howard inherited the earldom with its associated estates. He seems then to have stopped contesting the litigation, which was decided in favour of the Clerkes.
[P. W. King, 'The cupola near Bristol: smelting lead with pitcoal' ''Somerset Archsaeology and Natural History'' 140 (1997), 37–51.]
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1627 births
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Henry Howard, 05th Earl of Suffolk