Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk^[1]

1739 - 1779  (39 years)

• Name	Henry Howard
  Suffix	12th Earl of Suffolk
  Born	16 May 1739
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	1757
  Died	7 Mar 1779	Bath, Somerset, England
  Buried	20 Mar 1779	Charlton, Wiltshire, England
  Notes	http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal16688 Earl of Berkshire 5th. The Complete Peerage vol.XIIp1,page 477-478. «b»Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire«/b», «u»KG <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter>«/u», «u»PC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Great_Britain>«/u» («u»16 May«/u» «u»1739 «/u»\endash «u»7 March «/u» «u»1779 «/u») was a British politician who served as «u»Secretary of State for the Northern Department <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Northern_Departmentt>«/u» under «u»Lord North <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_North%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Guilford>«/u» from 1771 to 1779. In this capacity he secured the use of «u»Hessian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesse>«/u» and «u»Hanoverian «/u» mercenaries to help suppress the «u»American Revolution <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution>«/u». In the same capacity he helped to secure the survival of «u»Sweden <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden>«/u» as an independent nation by counteracting «u»Russia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Russia>«/u»'s plan to undo the «u»Revolution <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_III_of_Sweden#Revolution>«/u» of «u»Gustavus III <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_III_of_Sweden>«/u» in 1772. He was made a «u»Privy Counsellor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Great_Britain>«/u» in 1771 and a «u»Knight of the Garter <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_the_Garter>«/u» in 1778.
  Person ID	I48097	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2008

  
  

  Father	William Howard, Viscount Andover, MP,   b. 1714,   d. 15 Jul 1756, Elford, Staffordshire, England  (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Mary Finch,   b. 1 Mar 1716,   d. 1803  (Age 86 years)
  Married	6 Nov 1736
  Family ID	F551611817	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Maria Constantia Trevor,   b. 22 Feb 1743, The Hague, Netherlands ,   d. 8 Feb 1767, Duke Street, Westminster, England  (Age 23 years)
  Married	25 May 1764	St.George, Hanover Square, London, Greater London, England,
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2008
  Family ID	F551611819	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Lady Charlotte Finch,   b. 13 May 1754, Grosvenor Square, London, Greater London, England ,   d. 7 Jul 1828, Great Duke Street, Westminster, England  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2008
  Family ID	F551611822	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England([email protected]), (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).