Charles Francis Arnold Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow (5 November 1839 – 20 June 1881) was an

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peer.

Biography

Howard was the eldest son of Rev. Hon. Francis Howard, the third 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.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953: 'Wicklow'.''Cracroft's Peerage''
, 'Wicklow, Earl of (I, 1793 - 1978)' (Accessed 26 May 2016). He was educated at

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, before purchasing a commission as a

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in the

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on 18 December 1860. On 24 January 1865 he purchased a promotion to

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and later transferred to the

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.Lt-Col H.G. Hart, ''The New Annual Army List, and Militia List'' (various dates). He served as Aide-de-Camp to the

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between 1864 and 1866. On 11 December 1871 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Wicklow Militia ( Wicklow Artillery Militia from 1877).Maj E.B. Evans, ''An Outline of the History of The County Wicklow Regiment of Militia'', published by the Officers of the County Wicklow Militia, 1885, pp. 44–5.
/ref> In 1869 his uncle, William Howard, died, and Howard succeeded to his titles. In 1872 he was elected as an

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and assumed his seat on the

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benches in the

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. Between 1874 and 1879 Lord Wicklow was State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He did not marry, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Cecil Howard, following his death in 1881. Much of his life was spent defending himself against the legal challenge against him by Ellen Howard, wife of his late half-brother, William.

References

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