Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk

Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk
Born(1627-07-18)18 July 1627
Died10 December 1709(1709-12-10) (aged 82)
Spouse(s)Mary Stewart
Mary Ronkswood
Mary Upton
Children4, including Henry, Edward and Charles
FatherTheophilus Howard
RelativesJames Howard (brother)
George Howard (brother)
Frances Villiers (sister)

Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk (18 July 1627 – 10 December 1709) was the youngest son of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, but inherited the title because none of his brothers left surviving sons.

He married three times:

Mary Ronkswood advanced £500 (shortly before her marriage) towards the capital of the lead smelting enterprise of Sir Clement Clerke and his son Talbot, using reverberatory furnaces. However, her husband and her partner in the enterprise, Lord Grandison, were suspicious of the Clerkes. The result was that the enterprise was the subject of litigation, which continued until after Henry Howard inherited the earldom with its associated estates. He seems then to have stopped contesting the litigation, which was decided in favour of the Clerkes.[5]

  1. ^ Burkes Peerage and Baronetage
  2. ^ Collins's Peerage of England. Vol. 3. 1812. p. 157.
  3. ^ P. W. King, 'Sir Clement Clerke and the adoption of coal in metallurgy' Transactions of Newcomen Society 73 (2001-2), 26–7.
  4. ^ Burke
  5. ^ P. W. King, 'The cupola near Bristol: smelting lead with pitcoal' Somerset Archsaeology and Natural History 140 (1997), 37–51.