Coat of arms Sir Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon, KG

Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon (died 1611) was an English peer and politician. He was a

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Lord Lieutenant of Dorset The Office of the Lord Lieutenant was created during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547), taking over the military duties of the Sheriff of Dorset and control of the military forces of the Crown. From 1569, there was provision for the appointment o ...

25 April 1601 – 1 March 1611,

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before 1605–1611, and

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1603–1611. He 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 ...

, youngest son of

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. He succeeded to the viscountcy in 1590, upon the childless death of his elder brother,

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. The title became extinct when he died in 1611 without male children. Viscount Bindon built

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. In 1607 he described the building as a conception of his own mind, and wrote to

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crediting his part in origins of the design;

"If this little pile in Lulworth Park shall prove pretty or worth the labour bestowed in the erecting of it, I will acknowledge, as the truth is, that your powerful speech to me at Bindon laid the first foundation of the pile in my mind, which ever since has laboured for a speedy finishing for the contentment of those for whose further liking of that place the care is taken".''HMC 9 Salisbury Hatfield'', vol. 20 (London, 1968), p. 204.

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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-Admira ...

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