Donald Sterling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (14 June 1891 – 22 February 1959) was a
Conservative Party politician in the
United Kingdom
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.
Early life
He was the son of Robert Jared Bliss Howard,
OBE
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FRCS
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, and
Margaret Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal, who inherited her title from her father, the
first Baron, the title having been created with a special remainder to allow female succession. His paternal grandfather, Robert Palmer Howard, was Dean of Medicine at
McGill University
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.
He studied at
Eton and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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.
Career
He was elected at the
1922 general election as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Cumberland North and held the seat until 1926, when he succeeded to the peerage on the death of his mother. She had inherited the title from her father, the
first Baron, the title having been created with a special remainder to allow female succession.
He served in the
1930s National Government as
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
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from 1931 to 1934, and as
Under-Secretary of State for War
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from 1934 to 1939.
Personal life
On 25 October 1922, he married
The Honourable
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Diana Evelyn Loder, daughter of
Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, and Lady Louise de Vere Beauclerk (a daughter of
William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
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). Together, they were the parents of five children, including:
[Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes''. ]Wilmington, Delaware
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: Burke's Peerage
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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3777.
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Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1923–2018), who married Lady Jane Mary Waldegrave, daughter of
The 12th Earl Waldegrave, in 1954. They divorced in 1977 and he married Patricia (
née
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Thomas), widow of John Middleton, in 1978.
* The Hon. Barnaby John Howard (1925–2011), who married Elizabeth Mayfield, daughter of Frank McConnell Mayfield, in 1952. They divorced in 1967 and he married Mary-Jane Chambers, daughter of Ambrose Chambers, in 1970. After her death in 1994, he married Linda Frances Kitson, daughter of Henry James Buller Kitson, in 1996. He married Evelyn McDonald in 2006.
* The Hon. Jonathan Alan Howard (b. 1933), who married Hon. Brigid Mary Westenra, daughter of
William Westenra, 6th Baron Rossmore, in 1956. They divorced in 1969 and he married Cecilia Philipson in 1970.
* The Hon. Diana Catriona Howard (b. 1935), who married Michael Leslie Ogilvie Faber, son of George Valdemar Faber, in 1956.
On his death in 1959, he was succeeded in the peerage by his eldest son,
Euan
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.
See also
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Bell Telephone Memorial
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Canadian Hereditary Peers
References
External links
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1891 births
1959 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Canadian peers
Howard, Donald
Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers
Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939
Howard, Donald
Howard, Donald
Howard, Donald
UK MPs who inherited peerages
War Office personnel in World War II
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