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 268 HOWDEN — HOWE. K.H., 1830 : JI.C.B. 23rd Feb. 1852 : G.C.B.. 1858, while, of Foreign Orders, lie was (lS'iS) Knight of S. Ferdinand of Spain, and (1858) Grand Crow of Charles HI. of Spain, also a Knight of .St. Anne of Kussin : of Leopold of Belgium ; of the Redeemer of Greeee ; and of Hmeat of Saxony, besides being Knight Commander of the Legion of Honour of Kraliee He HI. at Paris 11 Jan. 18U0, Catherine, widow of Gen. Prince Baouation, of Russia, da. of Paul, Count Skavhoxskv, of Kussta, rod grand niece oi the fainons Prince Potmikin. From her, who was nineli his senior, he obtained a separation. She (/. s.p. at Venice, 2 June 1 S. r i7. lie died s.p. legit at the " Casa Caradoe '' in St. Etienne 'on the Kronen side of the suburbs of Bayonnc) 9 Oct. 1873, aged 71. and was bur. on the 1 1th with military honours in a mausoleum there erected.-'} At his death all. his honours became extinct. Personality in England swuni under £100,000. Will dat. 8 June 186u.( h ) HOWE [Jretoa*]. Viscountcy [1.1 1. Scbope Howe, of Langar, Notts, s. and h. of I. 1701. John Grubham Howe (sometime .M.P. for Gloucestershire) by Annabclla, illegit da. of Emanuel (Scrokk), Karl ok SuxriEn- i.akd (which lady, who was b. 1620, not only inherited the estate of Langar, Notts, but had a royal warrant, 1 June, 1668, to rank as the [legit] da. of an Marl) was h. Nov. 1648 ; ed. at Ch. Ch., Oxford ; M.A. 8 Sep. 1665, having been knighted 11 March 1062 3 ; M.P. for Notts 1C73-0S, and 1710-111, being one of the most vehement u whigs" and opposers of "popery" ; voted in the convention Pail, for placing William III. oil the throne, by whom he wa- made Groom of the Bedchamber, aud was a: U| May i?0t(°) VISCOUNT HOWE and BARON OK CLENAWLV, oo. Fermanagh 11. ] From 1698 to 1711 he was Comptroller of the Excise. He m. firstly in 1074 Anne. 8th da. of John (Manners), Stli Kaiil ok Rutland, by Frances, da. of Edward (Montagu), Baron Montagu ok Bouohtoit. She was b. in London about 1G55. He w. secondly (Lie. Fao, 15 July 1698) Juliana, da. of William (Alington), 2d Baron Alington ok Kji.lard [L], by his second wife, Juliana, da. of Baptist (Noel), Viscount Cami-dex, Herf. 26 Jan. 1712/8, at Langar, and was bur. there. Admou. 17 July 1713. His widow rf. 10 Sep., 174 7. Will pr. 23 Dec. 1747, II. 1713. a?. Emanuel Scuope (Howe) Viscount Howe, &c. [I.]. 2d but 1st surv. s. and h., being 1st s. by second wife ; b. about 1700 ; sue. to the peerage [I.], 26 Jan. 1712/0 ; M.P. for Notts 1728-11 ; Governor of Barbadoes, 1732-85. By the death, 3 July 1730, of his cousin, Sir Richard Howe, 3d Bart., he inherited the Baronetcy, which had been granted, 22 Sept. 1660, to his Great Grandfather, John Howe, of Compton, co. Gloue. Hem. 8 April 1710, Mary Sophia Charlotte, generally considered to he an illegit. da. of King George I.,(") being da. of Charlotte Sophia, sue- jure Countess ok Darlington, wife of John Adolph, Baron Von Kielmansegge, da. of Franz Ernest, Count Von Platen. He of. at Barbadoes 29 March 1735, and was bur. at Langar. Will pr. 1737. His wife, who was Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, d. 13 June 17S2, and was bur. 23d at Langar. Will pr. 1782. III. 17b5. 3. George Augustus (Howe), Viscount Howe, && [I.], 2d but 1st surv. s. and h., 6. about 1724. Sue to the pecrayt [I.], 29 March 1735 ; M.P. for Nottingham, 17-17-58 ; entered the army in 1719, and was in command, as Brig.-Gen., in America (under Gen. Abercromby), where he was slain in a skirmish with the French, C July 1758, at Trout Brook, near Ticonderoga, and bur. opposite the mouth of that streani.(°) He d. num. Will pr. Aug. 1759. (•') A copious and interesting account both of him and of his father is in the " The Cheaters of Chichcley" (by H. E. Chester Waters) pp. GS1— 689. ( b ) The Court of Chancery (V.C. Bacon) decided that his domicile was French, the first time it has been held that "a Peer of Pari, can tacitly lose his English domicile." See note ''a" next above. ( c ) The preamble to this patent is in " Lodge " vol. v., p. 84. ( J ) That King granted to her and her husband, 15 April 1719, a pension of £750, which, 30 April 1778, was renewed to their da. Juliana. (°) The stone placed over his remains was disinterred in May 1891. See full account thereof in " The Newcastle Wtcldy Chronicle," 2 Jan. 1892.