Thomas Howard (1736 - 1824)

Born 1736 in Folkestone, Kent, England

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Died 1824 at about age 88 in Stockwell, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Thomas Howard was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Thomas Howard, the eldest son of Robert and Elizabeth Howard of Folkestone, was a remarkably fine man and continued so even to his old age. He and his brother Robert began business together in London about the year 1760, but they did not continue long in the same trade, Thomas Howard pursuing the braziery business in a shop in Thames Street -- his brother Robert remaining in the tin trade in what was called Smithfield Bars, the north entrance of that place now part of St. John’s Street, here their sister Sarah kept their house. Thomas Howard married Mary Leatham of Pontefract in 1762 and afterwards removed to Queen Street, Cheapside - where they had a large family several of whom died in infancy.

Thomas Howard the elder lived many years in St. Paul’s Churchyard to which he removed from Queen Street, but not liking the retail business, and his wife’s health requiring a change to the country - they left London entirely in 1788 and retired to a comfortable house which Thomas Howard had built in the village of Stockwell, then much more rural than of late years.

The Iron Works at Rotherhithe in which Thomas Howard was a partner were managed on behalf of the Company by him for a long period for which he had a handsome salary; his son William was employed under him, and succeeded his father as principal. Thomas Howard died at Stockwell in 1824 aged 88 years. Mary Howard died in 1820 aged 81; both were buried at Wandsworth in the Friends’ Burial Ground.

c. 1812, he was the successor to the Dukedom of Norfolk, but he renounced the succession in favor of his cousin Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk.

Source - see Stanley Howard

He is also named as administrator of John Dearman's will dated1786. (wife Deborah née Richardson)

Burial

Friends' Burial Ground, Wandsworth

Sources

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p33173.htm#i331727

Acknowledgments

• Howard-8520 was created by Mark Chalk through the import of Thomas 1643 descendants.ged on Feb 17, 2015.

• Thank you to Lucy Barnard for creating WikiTree profile Howard-5509 through the import of Telfar family tree.ged on Aug 9, 2013.