Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

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.

Early life He was the son of Robert Jared Bliss Howard, OBE FRCS, 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.

He studied at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Personal life On 25 October 1922, he married The Honourable 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). Together, they were the parents of five children, including:

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 Thomas), widow of John Middleton, in 1978.