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

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, the son of

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. He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1685. He was returned as

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for Arundel in January 1694, but was unseated on petition by John Cooke in February. He was again returned for Arundel in 1695, holding the seat until 1698. From 1697 to 1707, he was Commissary-General of the Musters. In 1705, he was returned for

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, but left the House of Commons when he was created Earl of Bindon in 1706. He was the Deputy

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in England from 1706–1718. In 1708, he was appointed to the

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. In 1709, he succeeded his father as

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. In 1715, he was appointed

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and

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, offices he held until his death in 1718. Howard married his first wife, Lady Auberie Anne Penelope O'Brien, daughter of

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, on 6 September 1691. She died in November 1703. They had four sons and one daughter. In April 1705, he married his second wife, Lady Henrietta Somerset, daughter of

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and widow of Henry Horatio O'Brien, Lord O'Brien. They had no children. He was succeeded in the earldom and in his Lord-Lieutenancy by Charles William, his eldest surviving son.

References

* Charles Mosley (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, Wilmington, Delaware, 2003, vol III, pp. 3814–3817, 1670 births 1718 deaths 17th-century English nobility 18th-century English nobility People from London Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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Lord-Lieutenants of Essex Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain Henry Howard, 06th Earl of Suffolk English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1705–1707 Presidents of the Board of Trade Peers of England created by Queen Anne {{England-earl-stub