William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow KP (13 February 1788 – 22 March 1869) was an

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peer, styled Lord Clonmore from 1815 to 1818. He was the eldest son of

William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow PC (I) (January 1761 – 27 September 1818), known as William Forward between 1780 and 1815, was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Early life Howard was the second son of Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow ...

and Eleanor Caulfeild. He became

Earl of Wicklow Earl of Wicklow was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1793 for Alice Howard, Dowager Viscountess Wicklow. Born Alice Forward, she was the daughter of William Forward, Member of the Irish House of Commons for the County Donegal ...

in 1818 on the death of his father, and on 10 November 1821 he was elected as an Irish

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, thus enabling him to sit in the House of Lords as a

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. Between 1831 and his death he served as the first

Lord Lieutenant of Wicklow This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Wicklow. A lord-lieutenant is the British monarch's personal representative, in this case of County Wicklow, Ireland. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of ...

, and he was appointed a Knight of the

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on 9 October 1846. On 16 February 1816, he married Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton, the only child of

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by his second wife, Cecil Hamilton.John Bernard Burke
''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire''
(H. Colburn, 1845). He had no male issue, and was succeeded in his title by his nephew, Charles Howard.

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