Henry Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk

Henry Bowes Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, 4th Earl of Berkshire (4 November 1687[1] – 21 March 1757) was an English peer from the Howard family.

He was the son of Craven Howard and his second wife, Mary Bowes, and baptised three days after birth at St Anne's Church, Soho.[1]

His paternal grandfather, Hon. William Howard, was the fourth son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire[2]

On 12 April 1706, he succeeded his great-uncle, Thomas, as Earl of Berkshire. After the death of Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk in 1718, he was appointed Deputy Earl Marshal, an office he held until 1725. In 1745, he succeeded a distant cousin in the older title of Earl of Suffolk, and became Recorder of Lichfield in 1755.[3]

  1. ^ a b Westminster, London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558–1812
  2. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3815. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  3. ^ Doyle, James Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations. Longmans, Green. p. 456. Retrieved 1 November 2024.