Donald Sterling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (14 June 1891 – 22 February 1959) was a
Conservative Party politician in the
United Kingdom
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Biography
Strathcona was the son of Robert Jared Bliss Howard and
Margaret Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal.
He studied at
Eton and
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...
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[The Peerage, entry for 3rd Lord Strathcona](_blank)
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He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament
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(MP) for Cumberland North, and held the seat until 1926, when he succeeded to the peerage on the death of his mother. She had inherited the title from her father, the first Baron, the title having been created with a special remainder to allow female succession.
He served in the 1930s National Government as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
The Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a UK Government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The present Captain is The 9th Earl of Courtown, who was appointed to the position ...
from 1931 to 1934 and as Under-Secretary of State for War
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from 1934 to 1939.
Marriage and family
On 25 October 1922 Strathcona married Hon Diana Evelyn Loder, daughter of Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst
Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, JP DL LLB (25 October 1861 – 30 April 1936) was a British barrister, businessman and Conservative politician. He is best remembered for developing the gardens at Wakehurst Place, Sussex.
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and Lady Louise de Vere Beauclerk, a daughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, PC DL (15 April 1840 – 10 May 1898), styled Earl of Burford until 1849, was a British Liberal parliamentarian of the Victorian era.
The Duke served in William Gladstone's ...
. They had five children:
See also
* Bell Telephone Memorial
The Bell Memorial (also known as the Bell Monument or Telephone Monument) is a memorial designed by Walter Seymour Allward to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell at the Bell Homestead National Historic Site, in Br ...
* Canadian Hereditary Peers
References
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ThePeerage.com
External links
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1891 births
1959 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Canadian peers
Howard, Donald
Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers
Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939
Howard, Donald
Howard, Donald
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UK MPs who inherited peerages
War Office personnel in World War II
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