William Howard, Viscount Andover

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William Howard,
Viscount Andover
William Howard, Viscount Andover.jpg
Viscount Andover, c. 1735 by Antonio David
Member of Parliament for Castle Rising
In office
1737–1747
Personal details
Born(1714-12-23)23 December 1714
Died15 July 1756(1756-07-15) (aged 41)
Fisherwick, Staffordshire
Spouse
Lady Mary Finch
(m. 1736)
Parents
Relatives Henry Howard (son)
Education Eton College

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.

Contents

He was the eldest son and heir of the Henry Bowes Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk but was killed in an accident the year before his father's death; his own son succeeded as the 12th Earl.

Early life

Howard was the eldest surviving son of Henry Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk and 4th Earl of Berkshire and his wife, Catherine Graham, daughter of Col. James Grahme and Dorothy Howard, granddaughter of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire.

From 1725 to 1728, he was educated at Eton College. [1]

Career

Andover was returned unopposed as a Tory Member of Parliament for Castle Rising at a by-election on 16 April 1737. He voted against the Government on the Spanish convention in 1739 and on the Place Bill of 1740. In February 1741, he was one of the Tories who withdrew on the motion for Prime Minister Robert Walpole's dismissal. He was returned unopposed at the 1741 British general election but did not stand in 1747. [1]

Marriage and issue

Lord Andover married Lady Mary Finch, daughter of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford on 6 November 1736. They resided at Elford Hall, Staffordshire, and had four children: [2]

Death and legacy

Andover was killed in an accident on 15 July 1756. He was returning to Lichfield through Fisherwick Park when his young horses were frightened; he was thrown from the chaise carriage and landed on his head, dying instantly. He was buried at Elford. [3]

His father died the following March and was succeeded by Andover's only son, Henry, as the 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire. Henry died in March 1779; his posthumous son, the 13th Earl, lived only two days. [5]

His estates at Elford, Castle Rising, and Ashtead were eventually inherited by his only surviving child, Hon. Frances Howard. In 1783, she married Richard Bagot, fifth son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet and brother of Lord Bagot. Richard took the name Howard upon his marriage. [6] They had two sons who died in infancy and one daughter, Mary (9 May 1785 – 10 October 1877), who in 1807 married Col. Hon. Fulke Greville Upton, who also took the name Howard. [7] [8]

Mary and Fulke Greville Howard had no children and after her death in 1877 aged 92, the estates were therefore dispersed among Howard and Bagot relatives. Elford Park was left to her great-nephew Howard Francis Paget (son of Francis Edward Paget and grandson of Sir Edward Paget and Louisa Frances Bagot) and Castle Rising to Hon. Greville Theophilus Howard, younger son of the 17th Earl of Suffolk. [9] Ashtead Park was sold by the Bagot family in 1880, along with its entire contents, including paintings by Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Anthony van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, and Salvator Rosa. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Sedgwick, Romney, ed. (1970). "HOWARD, William, Visct. Andover (1714-56), of Elford Hall, Staffs". The House of Commons 1715–1754. The History of Parliament Trust.
  2. Paget, Francis Edward (1873). Some records of the Ashtead Estate and of its Howard possessors. Lichfield, England: Alfred Charles Lomax. p. 142. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  3. 1 2 Paget 1873, p. 140
  4. "Died". Suffolk Chronicle. 26 September 1818. p. 4. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  5. Paget 1873, p. 143
  6. Paget 1873, pp. 166–167
  7. Paget 1873, pp. 168
  8. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3815. ISBN   0-9711966-2-1.
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