Henry Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham (23 August 1806 – 5 February 1889), styled Lord Howard of Effingham from 1837 to 1845, was a British

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 peer

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 and Member of Parliament

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.

Effingham was the eldest son of General Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham

Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham

Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham was a British peer.His father, Henry Howard , was a male-line descendant of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham. His mother, Maria Mackenzie Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham (29 November 1767 – 13 February 1845) was a...

, from his first marriage to Lady Charlotte, daughter of Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of Rosebery. He was educated at Harrow

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, commissioned an ensign

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 in the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot

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 on 21 July 1825, and a lieutenant on 14 May 1826. On 9 November 1830, he became a captain in the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot, resigning his commission on 29 November 1833.

He was elected to the House of Commons

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 for Shaftesbury

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 in 1841, a seat he held until 1845, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords

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. Lord Effingham married Eliza, daughter of General Sir Gordon Drummond

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, in 1832.

• Hon. Blanche Eliza Howard (16 June 1834 – 1840)
• Lady Maria Howard (3 August 1835 – ?)
• Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham
  Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham
  Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham was an English peer, styled Lord Howard of Effingham from 1845 to 1889.He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, and served as a cornet in the Oxfordshire Yeomanry....
  
   (1837–1898)
• Capt. Hon. Frederick Charles Howard (21 June 1840 – 26 October 1893), married on 3 June 1871 Lady Constance Eleanora Caroline, daughter of George Finch-Hatton, 11th Earl of Winchilsea
  George Finch-Hatton, 11th Earl of Winchilsea
  George James Finch-Hatton, 11th Earl of Winchilsea and 6th Earl of Nottingham , styled Viscount Maidstone between 1826 and 1857, was a British peer and Tory politician.-Background:...
  
  , and had issue:
  • Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham
    Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham
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     (1873–1946)
  • Capt. Hon. Algernon George Mowbray Frederick Howard (15 September 1874 – 7 May 1950)
• Lady Alice Howard (8 March 1843 – ?)
• Hon. Kenneth Howard (14 June 1845 – 21 January 1903), clerk in the Foreign Office

On 17 February 1845, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant

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 of Wiltshire

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, and on 14 March 1853, a deputy lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire

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. He died in February 1889, aged 82, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Henry. The Countess of Effingham died in February 1894.