Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, (né Howard; 7 November 181525 November 1860) was a British peer and politician. He was hereditary

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and the last undisputed

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Family

He was the son of Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower. He married Augusta Lyons (1821–1886), of the

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, on 19 June 1839. She was the daughter of Sir Edmund Lyons (later 1st Baron Lyons) and Augusta Louisa Rogers, and was often known by her middle name, "Minna". The Duke had eleven children by Augusta. The Duke and Duchess are both buried in the mausoleum in

Fitzalan Chapel The Fitzalan Chapel is the chancel of the church of St Nicholas in the western grounds of Arundel Castle, in West Sussex, West Sussex, England. Dating to the 14th century, the chancel is used as the private mausoleum of the FitzAlans and later ...

on the western grounds of

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. His surname at birth was Howard; by

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dated 26 April 1842, his father (then Duke) added "Fitzalan" before his children's surnames, so they all became Fitzalan-Howard, which surname their male-line descendants have borne ever since. Their ancestor,

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, (10 March 1536 or 1538 2 June 1572), was an English nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her reign. Norfolk was the s ...

, married

Mary FitzAlan Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (''née'' Lady Mary FitzAlan; 1540 – 23/25 August 1557) was an English noblewoman and translator of the English language. The daughter and sole heiress of Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, she married Thom ...

(daughter and heiress of

Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel (23 April 151224 February 1580) was an English nobleman, who over his long life assumed a prominent place at the court of all the later Tudor sovereigns. Court career under Henry VIII He was the only s ...

) in 1555.

Public life

Howard was returned as a Whig for

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in the

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from 1837 to 1851, and for

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from 1851 to 1852. He was a devoted Roman Catholic, and resigned from his Arundel seat rather than support the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851, but secured the Limerick seat when its incumbent, John O'Connell, resigned in his favour. He edited the ''Lives of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his wife'' (1857 and 1861). He raised the 9th (Arundel) Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps on 28 February 1860 and commanded it as

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Private life

The Norfolk Royale Hotel in

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was originally built as a villa for the duke.

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