Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk, 7th Earl of Berkshire (11 January 1721 – 3 February 1783)[1] was a British peer, styled Hon. Thomas Howard until 1779.
Life
A younger son of Henry Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, he was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and received his MA in 1741.[2] Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1744, he succeeded his elder brother William Howard, Viscount Andover as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Castle Rising in 1747. He represented Castle Rising until 1768, when he was returned for Malmesbury; he continued there until 1774, when he sat for Mitchell. He left the House of Commons in 1779, when he succeeded his great-nephew Henry as Earl of Suffolk. He became a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1779.[1]
Upon his death in 1783, he was succeeded by a distant cousin, John.[3]
Family
On 13 April 1747, Howard married Elizabeth Kingscote (b. 7 Mar 1721/22, d. 22 Jun 1769) on 13 August 1747 at Temple Church, London, by whom he had one daughter:[3]
- Lady Diana Howard (23 July 1748 – 20 June 1816), married Sir Michael le Fleming, 4th Baronet
The earl also had a natural daughter, Margaret Southwell, who on 27 March 1794 married, in Calcutta, Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet with whom she had seven sons and a daughter.[4]