Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick (died 24 April 1675) was an English nobleman and Parliamentarian. Howard was the youngest son of

Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, (24 August 156128 May 1626) of Audley End House in the parish of Saffron Walden in Essex, and of Suffolk House near Westminster, a member of the House of Howard, was the second son of Thomas Howard, 4th ...

. He was knighted KB. In 1624 he was elected

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for

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and for Wallingford and chose to sit for Calne. He was elected MP for Hertford in 1628 but created

Baron Howard of Escrick Baron Howard of Escrick was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 12 April 1628 for Edward Howard. A member of the influential Howard family, he was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, the son of Thomas Howar ...

on 12 April 1628. Howard was one of the twelve peers who signed the petition on grievances, which he presented to Charles I at York in 1640. He was very active in the early parts of the

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. He was one of the ten Lords selected to attend the

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along with 20 Commoners as lay assessor, and was often employed in negotiations with Scottish officials. However, he was left off the

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and generally seems to play less of a role in the coming years. After the abolition of the House of Lords in 1649, he sat in the Commons as member for Carlisle, being also a member of the

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. In 1651 he was expelled from parliament for taking bribes. Howard married Mary Butler, daughter of John Boteler and Elizabeth Villiers, at York House on 30 November 1623.John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 4 (London, 1828), p. 927. They had two sons, Thomas, 2nd Baron Howard of Escrick, who married Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of

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, and

William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick (c. 1626–1694) was an English Parliamentarian soldier, nobleman, and plotter. Life Howard was the second son of Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick and Mary Butler. He matriculated at Corpus ...

, notorious both as a rebel and as an informer and double agent.

References

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* Year of birth missing 1675 deaths 1 Younger sons of earls Lay members of the Westminster Assembly Edward Howard, 01st Baron Howard of Escrick English MPs 1624–1625 English MPs 1628–1629 English MPs 1648–1653 Expelled members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom {{17thC-England-MP-stub