Earldom.
IX. 1603.
1. {{sc|Thomas (Howard), Lord Howard De Walden, K.G., L. Chamberlain of the Household, was cr., 21 July 1603.[1] Earl of Suffolk. He was 2d s. of Thomas ({{Sc|Howard), Duke of Norfolk, being 1st s. by his second wife, Margaret, da, and eventually sole h. of Thomas (Audley), Baron Audley of Walden; was b. 24 Aug. 1561 and styled Lord Thomas Howard; inherited, when a child, by the death of his mother, 10 Jan 1563/4, the estate of Saffron Walden, co, Essex, and other estates of his maternal grandfather above noted; was restored in blood, 19 Dec. 1584, from the attainder (16 Jan 1571/2) of his Father; Capt, of a man of war, 1588, being knighted (by the L. High Admiral) 25 June 1588 for his services against the Spanish Armada. Was in command against Cadiz in 1596 and against the Azores in 1597: el. K.G. 23 April and inst. 24 May 1597; was cr. LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN by writ of summons to Parl. 24 Oct. 1597 : appointed L Lieut, of Cambridgeshire, 1598, 1602 and 1625; Constable of the Tower of London, Feb, to March 1601. being one of the Peers who presided at the trials of the Earls of Essex and Southampton; High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1601 entertained Q. Eliz. at his mansion the Charterhouse, London, Jan, 1603; P.C., 1603; L. Chamberlain of the Household 1603-14, being cr. Earl of Suffolk (with the ordinary limitation), as above stated, 21 July 1603,14); Joint Earl Marshall, 1604; was instrumental in discovering the Guy Fawkes plot, 1605[2]; cr. M.A. of Cambridge, 31 June 1605, and incorp. at Oxford[3] 30 Ang. following: appointed L. Lieut. of Suffolk, 1605 and 1625; Capt. of the Gent. Pensioners, 1605-14; L. Lieut. of Dorset, 1613; Chancellor of the Uuiv, of Cambridge, 1614, entertaining the King there (St. John's Coll.) in 1615; {{sc|L. High Treasurer from July 1614 till his dismissal for embezzlement, July 1619, when (with his wife) he was fined £30,000, afterwards reduced to £7,000. He m. firstly Mary, second of the 3 sisters and coheirs[4] of George ({{sc|Dacre), Lord Dacre de Gillesand, da, of Thomas, Lord Dacre de Gillesand, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Leyburn. She d. sp. 7 April 1578 at Walden[5] and was bur. there, aged 14. He m. secondly, about 1583, Catharine, widow of the Hon. Richard Rich, 1st da, and coheir of Sir Henry Knyvett, of Charlton,[6] Wilts, by Elizabeth, da, and h. of Sir James Stumpe[7] of Bromham, in that county. He d. at Suffolk house, near Charing cross, 28 May, and was bur. 4 June 1620 at Walden, aged 64[8]. Funeral certif, at Coll, of Arms. Admon 17 June 1626. His widow, who was aged about 47 in 1613, and whose rapacity was the chief cause of her husband's downfall, was bur.
18 Sep. 1633 at Walden afsd. Admon. 12 Sep. 1638 and again 10 Nov. 1639,
- ↑ See vol. iii.. p. 113, note "c," sub. "Devonshire," as to the creations on that day.
- ↑ He thus acquired two distinct peerages of which the remainders were different, and which on the death of his grandson, the 3d Earl, in 1689, became separate, and was ever since so continued.
- ↑ See vol. iii., p. 236, note "a," sub. "Effingham," for the honorary degrees conferred on that occasion.
- ↑ of the other two sisters, (1) Anne m. Philip (Howard), Earl of Arundel and was ancestress of the Dukes of Norfolk, and (2) Elizabeth m. Lord William Howard, and was ancestress of the Earls of Carlisle, all three husbands being brothers.
- ↑ The coffin plate inscriptions, of the Earls of Suffolk and their wives at Saffron Walden, 1649 to 1745 [the one there dated "1790" being a mistake for "1720"] are given in Howard's "Mis. Gen. et Her.," 2d series, vol. v., p. 127.
- ↑ The estate of Charlton devolved on her 2d son, the 1st Earl of Berkshire, and still (1896) continues in the family, as their principal residence, reverting to the Earls of Suffolk in 1745, when the two Earldoms became united.
- ↑ See" Coll. Top. et Gen.," vol. vii., p. 83, for a good pedigree of Stumpe.
- ↑ His portrait, "after a painter unknown," is cugraved in "Doyle"; that of his wife [Qy. if not painted by Mytens?] in Pennant's "Chester to London" from a painting at Gorhambury. Lloyd in his "Statesmen," after stating that "his fair daughter did him most harm "[i.c., the Countess of Essex, whose part he took in getting her divorced so as to marry the favourite, Somerset], adds that he was "as plain as his brother [sic but query if not meant for his uncle, Henry, Earl of Northampton] Henry, was subtle, as obliging as he was insinuating, as knowing as he was cunuing, the one conversing with books, the other with men. . . . He was a man never endued with much patience, and one that much retarded the progress of his fortune by often speaking publicly with too much liberty."
