Henry Howard, 2nd Viscount Bindon (c. 1542 - 1590), aristocrat and courtier Henry Howard was the son of

Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon (c. 1520 – 1582) was an English peerage, peer and politician. Life He was the younger son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Elizabeth Staffor ...

and Elizabeth Marney, daughter of

John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney (by 1485 – 27 April 1525) of Layer Marney, Essex was an English Member of Parliament and Governor of Rochester Castle. He was the son of Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney of Layer Marney and educated in the law at L ...

Layer Marney Layer Marney is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, near Tiptree. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called Layer Marney Tower and the Church of St Mary the Virgin. History The ancient village was in the ...

and Christian Newburgh. Howard married Frances Meautys, daughter of

Peter Meutas Peter Meutas or Mewtas, or Mewtis, or Meautis, or Meautys (died 1562) was an English courtier and soldier.Ogier, D. M., 'Mewtas , Sir Peter (d. 1562)', in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004online ed ...

and

Jane Meutas Jane Meutas (or Mewtas, or Mewtis, or Meautis, or Meautys) (c. 1517 – c. 1551) was an English lady of the Queen's privy chamber who became the wife of the courtier Peter Meutas. Her name is sometimes given as Joan, and her maiden name was As ...

. Their daughter Douglas Howard married Sir

Arthur Gorges Sir Arthur Gorges (c. 1569 – 10 October 1625) was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset. Origins He was the son of Sir William Gorges (d.1584) of Charlton, in the parish of Wraxall, Somerset, Wraxall in Somerset, ...

in 1584. Howard had mental health problems, and was in prison at the time of his daughter's marriage.

Mark Girouard Mark Girouard (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022) was a British architectural historian. He was an authority on the country house, and Elizabethan and Victorian architecture. Life and career Girouard was born on 7 October 1931. He was educ ...

suggests that Howard started building

Lulworth Castle Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of ...

in Dorset, which his younger brother

Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon (died 1611) was an English peerage, peer and politician. He was a Order of the Garter, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 25 April 1601 – 1 March 1611, Custos Rotulorum of Dorset before ...

was completing in 1607.Mark Girouard, ''Robert Smythson & The Elizabethan Country House'' (Yale, 1983), pp. 226-8.

References

1540s births 1590 deaths 16th-century English nobility Henry Howard, 2nd Viscount Howard of Bindon Year of birth uncertain Viscounts Howard of Bindon {{England-viscount-stub