David Howard, 7th Earl of Effingham

David Mowbray Algernon Howard, 7th Earl of Effingham (29 April 1939 – 26 February 2022) was a Royal Navy officer and peer who was a member of the House of Lords from 1996 until 1999. A Deputy Lieutenant of Essex, he was president of the Royal British Legion.

Early life The son of John Algernon Frederick Charles Howard, a younger son of Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham, and his wife Suzanne Patricia Macassey, the young Howard was educated at Fettes College and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Effingham's seat in the Lords as a hereditary peer came to an end as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999. In 2018 he stood in a by-election for one of the ninety seats in the House of Lords reserved for hereditary peers, saying in his supporting statement:

Private life On 10 October 1964, Howard married Anne Mary Sayer, daughter of Harrison Sayer. They were divorced in 1975, after having a son: Edward Mowbray Nicholas Howard (born 1971), later 8th Earl of Effingham. On 29 December 1992, seventeen years after his divorce, Howard married Elizabeth Jane Eccleston, daughter of Dennis Eccleston.