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SUFFOLK. 1. {{sc|Thomas (Howard), Lord Howard De Walden, K.G., L. Chamberlain of the Household, was cr., 21 July 1603. {{Sc|Earl of Suffolk.}} He was 2d s. of Thomas ({{Sc|Howard), {{Sc|Duke of Norfolk}}, being 1st s. by his second wife, Margaret, da, and eventually sole h. of Thomas ({{Sc|Audley}}), {{Sc|Baron Audley of Walden}}; was b. 24 Aug. 1561 and styled {{Sc|Lord Thomas Howard}}; inherited, when a child, by the death of his mother, 10 Jan 1563/4, the estate of Saffron Walden, co, Essex, and other estates of his maternal grandfather above noted; was restored in blood, 19 Dec. 1584, from the attainder (16 Jan 1571/2) of his Father; Capt, of a man of war, 1588, being knighted (by the L. High Admiral) 25 June 1588 for his services against the Spanish Armada. Was in command against Cadiz in 1596 and against the Azores in 1597: el. K.G. 23 April and inst. 24 May 1597; was cr. LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN by writ of summons to Parl. 24 Oct. 1597 : appointed L Lieut, of Cambridgeshire, 1598, 1602 and 1625; Constable of the Tower of London, Feb, to March 1601. being one of the Peers who presided at the trials of the Earls of Essex and Southampton; High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1601 entertained Q. Eliz. at his mansion the Charterhouse, London, Jan, 1603; P.C., 1603; L. Chamberlain of the Household 1603-14, being cr. Earl of Suffolk (with the ordinary limitation), as above stated, 21 July 1603,14); Joint Earl Marshall, 1604; was instrumental in discovering the Guy Fawkes plot, 1605 ; cr. M.A. of Cambridge, 31 June 1605, and incorp. at Oxford 30 Ang. following: appointed L. Lieut. of Suffolk, 1605 and 1625; Capt. of the Gent. Pensioners, 1605-14; L. Lieut. of Dorset, 1613; Chancellor of the Uuiv, of Cambridge, 1614, entertaining the King there (St. John's Coll.) in 1615; {{sc|L. High Treasurer from July 1614 till his dismissal for embezzlement, July 1619, when (with his wife) he was fined £30,000, afterwards reduced to £7,000. He m. firstly Mary, second of the 3 sisters and coheirs of George ({{sc|Dacre), {{Sc|Lord Dacre de Gillesand}}, da, of Thomas, {{Sc|Lord Dacre de Gillesand}}, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis {{sc|Leyburn}}. She d. sp. 7 April 1578 at Walden and was bur. there, aged 14. He m. secondly, about 1583, Catharine, widow of the Hon. Richard {{sc|Rich}}, 1st da, and coheir of Sir Henry {{sc|Knyvett}}, of Charlton, Wilts, by Elizabeth, da, and h. of Sir James {{Sc|Stumpe}} of Bromham, in that county. He d. at Suffolk house, near Charing cross, 28 May, and was bur. 4 June 1620 at Walden, aged 64 . Funeral certif, at Coll, of Arms. Admon 17 June 1626. His widow, who was aged about 47 in 1613, and whose rapacity was the chief cause of her husband's downfall, was bur. 18 Sep. 1633 at Walden afsd. Admon. 12 Sep. 1638 and again 10 Nov. 1639, {{rule}}{{smallrefs}}