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English nobleman and Parliamentarian
Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick
(died 24 April 1675) was an English nobleman and
Parliamentarian
.
Howard was the youngest son of
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
. He was knighted
KB
in 1616, when
Charles
became
Prince of Wales
.
[1]
In 1624 he was elected
Member of Parliament
for
Calne
and for
Wallingford
and chose to sit for Calne.
[2]
On the death of his father in 1626, he inherited an estate in
Tollesbury
, Essex.
[3]
He was elected MP for
Hertford
in 1628 but created
Baron Howard of Escrick
on 12 April 1628.
[1]
Howard was one of the twelve peers who signed a petition in August 1640, opposing Charles I's expedition into Scotland.
[4]
In May 1641 he was one of 10 peers selected to serve on a committee to investigate the
first Army Plot
.
[5]
He was very active in the early parts of the
English Civil War
. He was one of the ten Lords selected to attend the
Westminster Assembly of Divines
along with 20 Commoners as lay assessor, and was often employed in negotiations with Scottish officials. However, he was left off the
Committee of Both Kingdoms
and generally seems to play less of a role in the coming years.
After the abolition of the House of Lords in 1649, he sat in the Commons as member for
Carlisle
and served on the
council of state
. In 1651 he was expelled from parliament for corruption.
[4]
He sold
Escrick
in 1668.
[6]
Howard married Mary Butler, daughter of
John Boteler
and Elizabeth Villiers, at
York House
on 30 November 1623.
[7]
His wife's mother was the half-sister of
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
, to whom Howard was deemed to have owed his elevation to the peerage.
[1]
They had two sons, Thomas, 2nd Baron Howard of Escrick, who married Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of
John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough
, and
William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick
, notorious both as a rebel and as an informer and double agent.
References
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"HOWARD, Sir Edward II (?1602-1675), of Escrick, Yorks. and Tollesbury Hall, Essex"
. History of Parliament Online
. Retrieved
24 June
2013
.
- ^
Ruigh, R.E. (1971).
The Parliament of 1624: Politics and Foreign Policy
. Harvard historical studies. Harvard University Press. p. 87.
ISBN
978-0-674-65225-5
.
- ^
Morant, Philip (1768).
The history and antiquities of the county of Essex
. Vol. 1. p. 402.
- ^
a
b
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Chisholm, Hugh
, ed. (1911). "
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of
".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 26.
- ^
Christianson, Paul (1977). "The Peers, the People, and Parliamentary Management in the First Six Months of the Long Parliament".
The Journal of Modern History
.
49
: 598.
- ^
"A History of the County of York East Riding: Vol. 3: Escrick"
. British History Online
. Retrieved
30 November
2023
.
- ^
John Nichols,
Progresses of James the First
, vol. 4 (London, 1828), p. 927.