Flora Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk


Duchess of Norfolk
Duchess of Norfolk, 1877 engraving
BornFlora Paulyna Hetty Barbara Clifton
(1854-02-13)13 February 1854
Mayfair, London, England
Died11 April 1887(1887-04-11) (aged 33)
Arundel Castle, Sussex
NationalityBritish
Noble familyHoward family
Spouse(s)
(m. 1878)
Issue1
FatherCharles Abney-Hastings, 1st Baron Donington
MotherEdith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun

Flora Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Clifton; 13 February 1854 – 11 April 1887)[1] was a British noblewoman, philanthropist, and convert to Catholicism. Her 1878 marriage to Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk "was the event of the fashionable world" and covered widely in the press. They had one child, a severely disabled son, before she died aged 33.[2]

  1. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1890). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing (59th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 202.
  2. ^ "Duchess of Norfolk". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 12 April 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 7 October 2024.