Essex (Howard) Griffin (abt. 1648 - aft. 1705)

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Biography

Essex Howard was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Lady Essex Howard was daughter of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk and his first wife, Susan Rich. She married Edward Griffin 4 March 1667 and on 15 December that year bore him a son, James.

Lady Essex and her husband Baron Edward Griffin were loyal to King James II and an order was issued for their arrest on 22 Oct 1689. Lady Essex was captured and sent to the Tower. She died between 1705 and 1710.

Research Notes

It is not yet known when Essex died but she was still alive on 31 January 1705 and had died before her husband died in 1710.

Sources

• The History of Dingley p. 50
• Thepeerage.com: Lady Essex Howard Cites G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 284
• A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire Sir Bernard Burke Nabu Public Domain reprints Page 255 Griffin