James Howard (dramatist)

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James Howard (c. 1640 – July 1669){{Cite ODNB|id=13918 |title=Howard, James (c.1640–1669)}} was an English dramatist and member of a Royalist family during the English Civil War and the Restoration.

He was the second son of Thomas Howard (1621-1689) and his wife, Walburga or Werburge van der Kerchove. His father Thomas was the second son of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and the younger brother of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk.{{cite book |first=Charles |last=Mosley |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (edition 107) |volume=3 |page=3814 |date=2003}}{{cite book |first=H. A. |last=Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden |title=The Complete Peerage (1936) |volume= |page= }}{{cite web |url=http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/hh4bz/howard06.htm |title=Howard06 Tree |publisher=Stirnet |date= |accessdate=8 Sep 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/howard-hon-thomas-1621-c81 |title=Thomas HOWARD (1621-81) |publisher=The History of Parliament |date= |accessdate=8 Sep 2023}}

Howard married Charlotte Fitzroy, a daughter of the Stuart King Charles II and Elizabeth Killigrew. Their daughter was named Stuarta Werburge Howard after Howard's mother and after his wife.