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Fulk Greville Howard (''né'' Upton; 3 April 1773 – 4 March 1846) was an English politician. He adopted the name

Howard Howard is a masculine given name derived from the English surname Howard. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' notes that "the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems to be no particular reason for ...

in 1807 upon marrying the heiress of Elford Hall,

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and

Castle Rising Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Castle Rising is located along the course of the River Babingley, separating the village from the lost village of Babingley. The village is located north-east ...

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Early life and education

Howard was born at

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, the younger son of

Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown (14 March 1721 – 16 April 1785) was an Anglo-Irish courtier and peer. He was the youngest son of Lieutenant Colonel John Upton, of Castle Upton, County Antrim, by his wife Mary Upton, only daughter of Dr ...

, of Temple Patrick, County Antrim, and educated at

Westminster School Westminster School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the Norman Conquest, as do ...

(1786–1791),

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church (, the temple or house, ''wikt:aedes, ædes'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by Henry V ...

1791 and the

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Career

Howard joined the Army and was an ensign in the

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(1793), lieutenant and captain (1794), captain and lieutenant-colonel (1804), lieutenant-colonel of the 7th

West India Regiment The West India Regiments (WIR) were infantry units of the British Army recruited from and normally stationed in the British colonies of the Caribbean between 1795 and 1927. In 1888 the two West India Regiments then in existence were reduced t ...

(1807). Reduced to half-pay, he commanded the Irish 9th garrison battalion (July 1807), was brevet colonel in 1813 and fully retired in 1825. He took part in the

Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland The Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (or Anglo-Russian expedition to Holland, or Helder Expedition) was a military campaign from 27 August to 19 November 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition, in which an expeditionary force of British and ...

during the

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in 1799, losing the sight of one eye in the Helder Expedition. He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

from 29 January 1808 to 1832. He was elected a

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in 1803.

Marriage

On 7 July 1807, at

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, Upton married Mary Howard, the daughter and heiress of Frances Howard, the only surviving child of

William Howard, Viscount Andover William Howard, Viscount Andover (23 December 1714 – 15 July 1756), of Elford Hall, Staffordshire, was a British Tory politician from the Howard family who sat in the House of Commons from 1737 to 1747. He was the eldest son and heir of the ...

, of Elford Hall, Staffordshire;

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, Surrey; and

, Norfolk; and Richard Howard (formerly Bagot), son of

Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, 5th Baronet (3 August 1702 – 20 January 1768) of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1724 and 1768. Early life Bagot was the eldest surviving son of ...

. He formally took his wife's surname on 6 August 1807. In 1818, his wife inherited the majority of her parents' estates worth nearly £350,000 (). They had no children and after her death in 1877 aged 92, the Howard estates were therefore dispersed among Howard and Bagot relatives.

References

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