Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk (1 January 1706 – 22 April 1745), of

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, Essex, styled Lord Walden from 1731 to 1733 was an English politician from the

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who sat in the

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from 1727 until 1733 when he succeeded to the peerage as the Earl of Suffolk.

Biography

Howard was the only child of

Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk (1675 – 28 September 1733) was an English nobleman and politician, styled Hon. Charles Howard from 1691 to 1731. Biography The third son of Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk, he was commissioned a captain ...

and his wife Henrietta Hobart, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet. He was brought up by his father and had little contact with his mother after she became mistress to George, Prince of Wales, later George II. He was admitted at

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. Howard was returned as Member of Parliament for Bere Alston by his uncle, Sir John Hobart, 5th Baronet. He voted consistently against the Government. On the death of his father on 28 September 1733, he succeeded to the peerage as

Earl of Suffolk Earl of Suffolk is a title which has been created four times in the Peerage of England. The first creation, in tandem with the creation of the title of Earl of Norfolk, came before 1069 in favour of Ralph the Staller; but the title was forfei ...

and vacated his seat in the House of Commons. Suffolk married Sarah Inwen, daughter of

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brewer of Southwark, on 13 May 1735, with £25,000 which allowed him to discharge the mortgages on Audley End. He died on 22 April 1745 at age 39 with no surviving issue and no brothers to whom the title could be passed. The line of Earls of Suffolk back to Henry's great-great-grandfather

Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, (24 August 1561 – 28 May 1626), of Audley End House in the parish of Saffron Walden in Essex, and of Suffolk House near Westminster, a member of the House of Howard, was the second son of Thomas Howard ...

thus died out, and the title passed to a great-grandson of the 1st Earl (via the 1st Earl's second son Thomas), Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Berkshire. Henry's widow Sarah remarried to

Lucius Cary, 7th Viscount Falkland Lucius Charles Cary, 7th Viscount Falkland (c. 1707 – 27 February 1785) was a Scottish peer. Biography Cary was the son of Lucius Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland and his first wife, Dorothy. He succeeded to the peerage in 1730 when his father, a l ...

, on 10 October 1752. She died on 27 May 1776.

References

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