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 EFFINGHAM. 235 EFFINGHAM. (») Barony. 1. Lord Thomas Howard, yr. s. of Thomas, 2d Duke I 1554 0K Norfolk, being the eldest Ron by the sec-nd wife, Agnes, da. of Hugh, and sister and h. of Sir Philip Tilney, was b. about 1510; attended Henry VIII. iu Oct. 1531' at the field of the cloth of Gold ; Deputy Earl Marshal at the coronation of Queen Ann Bolcyne, 1 June 1533 ; Ambassador to Edinburgh for the investment of James V. [S.] with the Garter, 21 Feb. 1 534/5, ( b ) and again March to May 153G ; Ambassador to France, 1537 and 1541. He, with his wife, was convicted of high treason in 1512 for complicity with his niece, Queen Katharine Howard, but was pardoned 1514 and served at the siege of Boulogne in 1545. On 19 March 1551, he received a grant of the manor of Effingham, &c. P. C. to Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Eliz. Lord Deputy of Calais, 1552-54. He was on 11 March 1553/1, cr. BARON HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM/ 0 ) co. Surrey ; took an active part against Wyatt's rebellion in 1554 ; Lord Great Admiral of England, 1551-58; K.GK, 9 Oct 1551. At the accession of Elizabeth he became (1558-72) Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Privy Seal, July 1572 till his death. ( J ) He was also Lord Lieut, of Surrey, 1559-73 ; and was cr. M.A. of Cambridge, 10 Aug. 1564, and of Oxford, 6 Sept. 1.566. He m. Katharine, sister and coheir of John Broughton, da. of John P>., of Tuddiugtou, Beds, by Agnes, da. and heir of Sir John SapcoTB. She d. s.p. m. 23 April 1535 and was bur. at Lambeth, Surrey. M.I. He m. secondly, before 1536, Margaret, 3d da. of Sir Thomas Gamaoe, of Coity, co. Glamorgan, by Mary, da. of Sir John St. John, of Bletshoe, Beds. He d. at Hampton Court (or at Reigate) 11 (or 21) Jan. 1572/3, and was bur. the 29th at Reigate. Will dat. 6 May 1569, pr. 16 June 1573. In}, post mortem, at Southwark, 13 June 1573. His widow d. 18 and was bur. 19 May 1581 at Reigate. II. 1573— 1603, 2. Charles (Howard), Baron Howard of Effing- and ham s. and h. by second wife, b. 1536, was Lord High Admiral 1615 — 1624. 15S5, and as such, was in command at the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 15SS, as also at the capture of Cadiz in 1596. He was 22 Oct. 1596, cr. Earl of Nottingham.( 0 ) He d. 14 Dec. 1624, aged 88. See fuller particulars under "Nottingham," Earldom of, cr. 1596 ; ex. 1681, III. 1603 — 1615. 3. William (Howard), Baron Howard of Effingham, 1st s. and h. ap. of the above, by his first wife Catharine, da. of Henry (Carey), 1st Baron Hunsdon, b. 27 Dec. 1577, and bap. 3 Jan. 1577/8, at Rei- gate ; knighted at Cadiz, 27 June 1596 ; styled Lord Howard, since 22 Oct. 1596 ; M.P. for Surrey 1597 — 1601, till sum. v.p. to the House of Lords in his Father's Barony (as above) by writs, 19 March 1602/3 to 5 April 1614. He was cr. M.A. at Oxford, ( a ) See " the Howards of Effingham, by Granville Leveson-Gower, Esq., F.S.A.," in the " Surrey Arch, collections," vol. ix, pp. 395-436. ( b ) See list of these Garter missions, vol. ii, p. 192, note "a," sub " Oathcart." ( c ) In Collins' " Precedents," p. 328, this title is included among " Instances whero the title of honour has been iu the surname and not in the place and yet, by mistake, or corruption of time, such peers have writ themselves or have been written by others by the name of the place and not by their true title of the surname." It is there stated that all thro' the reign of Queen Mary the grantee is " entered all along in the Sessions Dominus Howard de Effingham or Dominus Howard Admirallus, without Effingham ; but in 1 Jac. I (19, 22, and 26 March) entered Dominus Effingham ; in subscribing the declaration May 4 1689, and March 20 1639, he writes Effingham, but at the same timo in the list of those who took the oaths he is entered Francis Lord Howard oj Effing- ham. ( d ) " Few men played a more important part than he did both in the reigns of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. At the accession of Queen Elizabetb, says Froude (Hist, of Engl., vol. vi, 180), the Howard family was represented by William, Lord of Effingham, to whom, abovo all other Englishmen, Elizabeth owed her life and throne." See " Howards of Effingham," as iu note " a," abovo. ( c ) His father was great grandson to Sir Robert Howard, by Margaret da. of Thomas (Mowbray), Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Nottingham.