About Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow
Lived 1726 – 1786 (aged 59–60). Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow was a politician.
Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow PC (I) (29 August 1727 – 26 June 1789) was an Anglo-Irish politician and nobleman.
Early life Ralph Howard was born on 29 August 1727 at Shelton Abbey, County Wicklow, the eldest son of seven children born to the former Patience Boleyn and the Rt. Rev. Robert Howard (1670–1740), Bishop of Elphin.
In May 1770, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland and on 12 July 1776 Howard was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Clonmore of Clonmore Castle, County Carlow. In June 1785 he was further honoured as Viscount Wicklow, but died a year later. Together, they were the parents of eleven children, including:
Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow (1757–1815), a Representative Peer for Ireland from 1800 to 1815 who died unmarried.
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Irish politician and nobleman
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Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow was born in 1726 in County Wicklow.
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Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow died on 26 June 1786 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow was a politician.
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