Henry Howard

Henry "Harry" Charles Howard (17 September 1850 – 4 August 1914) was an English Liberal politician and landowner in Cumbria, where he resided at Greystoke Castle. He was a member of the Howards of Greystoke, a Protestant branch of the aristocratic Howard family.

Early life

Howard was born in 1850 at Greystoke Castle, the eldest son of politician Henry Howard (1802–1875), a son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard (younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk). His mother was Charlotte Caroline Georgina Long, daughter of Henry Lawes Long and Lady Catharine Walpole (daughter of the 2nd Earl of Orford).

Sir Stafford Howard, Robert Mowbray Howard, and Esmé Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith were his younger brothers.

The remaining amount was used to fund a portrait of Howard for the county. Prominent copyist D. A. Vere Smith painted the portrait after an original by Sir George Reid (1902) in the collection of Greystoke Castle. The new portrait was unveiled by Lord Muncaster, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland, in August 1915 at the Carlisle Courts, in a large ceremony attended by James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Speaker of the House of Commons, who had unseated him in the 1886 election. It was unveiled again two years later in a ceremony honoring Howard at Newton Rigg College.