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 (1686 – 21 March 1757) was an English peer. He was the son of Craven Howard and Mary Bowes. He married his full cousin Catherine Graham, daughter of Colonel James Grahme and Dorot ...

, 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, styled by courtesy Viscount Andover (23 December 1714 – 15 July 1756), of Elford Hall, Staffordshire, was British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1737 to 1747. Early life Howard was the eldest surviving son ...

as a

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(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 Henry as

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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 Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet (29March 175813February 1832) was a British MP and Chairman of the East India Company. He was born the son of John Robinson of Calcutta, who died at the Cape of Good Hope in 1779, and Margaret, daugh ...

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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