Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk, 7th Earl of Berkshire (11 January 1721 – 3 February 1783) was a British peer, styled Hon. Thomas Howard until 1779.

Life

A younger son of

Henry Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk Henry Bowes Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, 4th Earl of Berkshire (4 November 1687 – 21 March 1757) was an English peer from the Howard family. He was the son of Craven Howard and his second wife, Mary Bowes, and baptised three days after birth ...

, he was educated at

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, and received his MA in 1741. Called to the bar at the

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in 1744, he succeeded his elder brother

William Howard, Viscount Andover William Howard, Viscount Andover (23 December 1714 – 15 July 1756), of Elford Hall, Staffordshire, was a British Tory politician from the Howard family who sat in the House of Commons from 1737 to 1747. He was the eldest son and heir of the ...

as a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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in 1747. He represented Castle Rising until 1768, when he was returned for

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; he continued there until 1774, when he sat for Mitchell. He left the House of Commons in 1779, when he succeeded his great-nephew

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. He became a

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of the Inner Temple in 1779. Upon his death in 1783, he was succeeded by a distant cousin,

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Family

On 13 April 1747, Howard married Elizabeth Kingscote (b. 7 Mar 1721/22, d. 22 Jun 1769) on 13 August 1747 at Temple Church, London, by whom he had one daughter: *Lady Diana Howard (23 July 1748 – 20 June 1816), married Sir Michael le Fleming, 4th Baronet The earl also had a natural daughter, Margaret Southwell, who on 27 March 1794 married, in Calcutta, Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet with whom she had seven sons and a daughter.

References

1721 births 1783 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Howard, Thomas Howard, Thomas Howard, Thomas Howard, Thomas Howard, Thomas

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