Lieutenant-General Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham (1714 – 19 November 1763), styled Lord Howard from 1731 to 1743, was a British nobleman and Army officer, the son of

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. Lord Howard was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the

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on 19 February 1734. On 7 January 1739, he was commissioned a guidon in the 2nd Troop of

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, of which his father was then captain and colonel. He was promoted first lieutenant and captain on 10 May 1740. Upon his father's death in February 1743, he succeeded him as

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, and subsequently as

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. On 11 April 1743, Effingham was made first lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel in the

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. Effingham (as he was now known) married Elizabeth Beckford, daughter of Peter Beckford and sister of the politician William Beckford, on 14 February 1745. The couple's children included: *

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(1747–1791) * Richard Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham (1748–1816) Effingham was appointed an aide-de-camp to king George II on 20 August 1749. He received the colonelcy of the

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on 2 December 1754. He was promoted major-general on 15 January 1758 and

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on 22 February 1760. George II died on 25 Oct 1760. Less than a week later, on 30 October 1760, Effingham left the 34th to become Captain and Colonel of the 1st Troop

. Early in the reign of the new king, Effingham, who held the position of Deputy

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due to being a Protestant and a member of the

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, was entrusted with organizing the

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. By every account, the event was badly organized. When the king remonstrated with Effingham, he admitted that there had been "some neglect," but that he would make sure that the coronation would be organised properly (when, of course, the king would be dead). King George, who was twenty-two years old at this time (while Effingham was forty-seven), was highly amused by the answer and made Effingham repeat it several times over.Jesse 1867, p. 108 Effingham was unable to keep his word to the king. He died two years after the coronation of George III. He was succeeded in his peerages by his eldest son,

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