Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk

The eldest son of Henry Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk and Mary Eleanor Lauderdale Coventry (1847–1928). His siblings were Hon. James Knyvett Estcourt Howard, Lady Mary Howard, Lady Eleanor Howard, Lady Agnes Howard, and Lady Katharine Howard.{{cite web |title=Suffolk, Earl of (E, 1603) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/suffolk1603.htm |website=cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |accessdate=18 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425124340/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/suffolk1603.htm |archive-date=25 April 2014 |url-status=live }}

His paternal grandparents were Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk and his wife, Isabella Howard (daughter of Lord Henry Howard, and niece of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk). His maternal grandparents were Capt. Hon. Henry Amelius Coventry (son of George Coventry, 8th Earl of Coventry and Lady Mary Beauclerk, the only daughter of Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans){{cite web |title=Coventry, Earl of (E, 1697) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/coventry1697.htm |website=cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |accessdate=18 September 2019}} and the former Caroline Stirling Dundas (second daughter of James Dundas, 28th of Dundas Castle and Hon. Mary Tufton Duncan, a daughter of Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan).

He was educated at Sandroyd School1891 Census, https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/6598/images/SRYRG12_547_549-0458?treeid=198470241&personid=112601006598&rc=&queryId=e38425db-8935-4767-9696-49983084f56c&usePUB=true&_phsrc=eNv122&_phstart=successSource&pId=18140126 and Winchester College.Wainewright, John Bannerman (ed). [https://archive.org/details/winchestercolleg00wincuoft Winchester College 1836–1906: A Register]. P. and G. Wells, 1907. page 513.

He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (The Royal North Gloucestershire Militia) on 12 February 1896{{London Gazette|issue=26708|page=788|date=11 February 1896}} and was promoted lieutenant on 2 February 1897.{{London Gazette|issue=26809|page=7|date=1 February 1897}} He succeeded his father as Earl of Suffolk in March 1898. On 16 December 1898, he was seconded as an extra aide-de-camp to George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, and was promoted captain while serving as ADC on 11 April 1900.{{London Gazette|issue=27308|page=2861|date=26 April 1901}}

He resigned his commission on 28 January 1907.{{London Gazette|issue=27999|page=1391|date=26 February 1907}} On 9 June 1908, he was commissioned as a major, commanding the Wiltshire Battery, 3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery{{London Gazette|issue=28189|page=7757|date=27 October 1908}} This Territorial unit was sent to India at the beginning of World War I and subsequently provided drafts to units fighting in the Mesopotamian campaign.On 21 April 1917, at the Battle of Istabulat, Suffolk was killed by shrapnel through the heart while commanding a battery.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} He is buried at Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.{{CWGC|id=631607|name=Howard, Henry Molyneux Paget|access-date=12 November 2024}}

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On 26 December 1904, Suffolk married the American heiress Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (1880–1968), the second daughter and youngest child of Levi Zeigler Leiter of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=DAISY LEITER MARRIES; Bride of the Earl of Suffolk -- Will Go Abroad This Week. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/27/120273924.pdf |accessdate=18 September 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=27 December 1904}} Daisy was the sister of Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston and sister-in-law of Lord Curzon, by whom he had three children:{{cite news| url=http://tucson.com/news/blogs/streetsmarts/street-smarts-neighborhood-road-named-for-lady-suffolk/article_6a25978c-a9a2-5e94-937a-d7bb1df5da89.html|title=Street Smarts: Neighborhood, road named for Lady Suffolk | newspaper=Arizona Daily Star | first=David | last=Leighton | date=2014-10-20}}

• Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk (1906–1941), who married Chicago-born English ballet dancer, Mimi Forde-Piggott, known as "Mimi Crawford", daughter of Alfred George Forde-Piggott.
• Hon. Cecil John Arthur Howard (1908–1985), who married Frances Drake Dean, daughter of Edwin Morgan Dean,{{cite news |title=CECIL J.A. HOWARD WEDS; Frances Drake Is Married to Brother of Earl of Suffolk |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/02/14/95758732.pdf |accessdate=18 September 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=14 February 1939}} without issue.
• Lt. Cdr. Hon. Greville Reginald Howard (1909–1987), who married Mary Ridehalgh, daughter of William Smith Ridehalgh of Broughton Lodge.

Lord Suffolk was succeeded by his son Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk. His widow survived him by over fifty years until her death on 5 March 1968. She died at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, California.{{cite news |title=Margaret Lady Howard Dies; Dowager Countess of Suffolk |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/03/06/archives/margaret-lady-howard-dies-dowager-countess-of-suffolk.html |accessdate=18 September 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=6 March 1968}}

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• [http://tucson.com/news/blogs/streetsmarts/street-smarts-neighborhood-road-named-for-lady-suffolk/article_6a25978c-a9a2-5e94-937a-d7bb1df5da89.html David Leighton, "Street Smarts: Neighborhood, road named for Lady Suffolk," Arizona Daily Star, Oct. 21, 2014]

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