Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Earl of Surrey KG
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Painting in the Mannerist style possibly attributed to the Dutch artist William Scrots. c. 1546.
Personal details
Born	c. 1517 Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
Died	19 January 1547 (aged 29 or 30) Tower Hill, London, England
Resting place	First at the Church of All Hallows, Tower Street, London and then at Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham, Suffolk
Spouse	Frances de Vere
Children	Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton Jane Howard, Countess of Westmorland Katherine Howard, Lady Berkeley Margaret Howard, Lady Scrope
Parent(s)	Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Lady Elizabeth Stafford
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Writing career
Language	Early Modern English
Period	16th century
Genres	Sonnet song translation
Subjects	Beautiful lady, other
Literary movement	English Renaissance, Petrarchism

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG (1516/1517–19 January 1547) was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person to have been executed at the insistence of King Henry VIII. His name is usually associated^{[clarification needed]} in literature with that of the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. Owing largely to the powerful position of his father Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Henry took a prominent part in court life, and served as a soldier both in France and in Scotland. He was a man of reckless temper, which involved him in many quarrels, and finally brought upon him the wrath of the ageing Henry VIII. He was arrested, tried for treason and beheaded on Tower Hill.