Margaret Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal (''née'' Smith; 17 January 1854 - 18 August 1926) was a British peer and medical doctor.
She inherited the title from her father, the
first Baron, the title having been created with a special remainder to allow female succession. In 1888, she married Robert Jared Bliss Howard
OBE
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FRCS
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(1859–1921), son of Robert Palmer Howard (1823–1889), Dean of Medicine at
McGill University
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.
She was succeeded by her son
Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
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.
Early life
He was the son of Robert Jared Bliss Howard, OBE FRCS, and Margaret ...
.
She is buried in
Highgate Cemetery
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(East), London.
References
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1854 births
1926 deaths
19th-century Canadian physicians
19th-century British medical doctors
19th-century British women medical doctors
Daughters of barons
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
British baronesses
Hereditary women peers
19th-century Canadian women physicians