DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE* 495 WICKLOW, EARL OF. (HOWARD.) CHARLES FRANCIS ARNOLD HOWARD, 5th Earl, a Representative Peer of Ire- and, son of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Howard, Vicar of Swords, and grandson of the 3rd Earl (who d. 1837) . Born Nov. 5th, 1839; succeeded his uncle in 1869; educated at Magdalen College, Oxford; entered the llth Hussars, 1860, became Lieut. 1865, retired as Lieut. 9th Lancers, .. ^-_^ 1870; is Col. of Wicklow Militia, and a Serve thou^d^dTejoice in Him. Dep. Lieut, of CO. Wicklow.
- Brother living, Cecil Ralph, heir presumptive, b. 1842 ; was educated at Rugby, and at
Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1867; ; is a Lieut, in the 6oth Rifles. C7s,-^-Naval and Military, Kildare Street (Dublin),
- Sisters living, Caroline Louisa, b. 1837. Louisa Frances, b. 1844. Alice Mary, b. 1846.
Creations, Baron Clonmore of Clonmore Castle) in the county of Carlow > 1778, Viscount Wicklow, 1785, Earl of Wicklow, 1793, all in the peerage of Ireland. , Quarterly : 1st and 4th, gules, a bend between six cross crosslets, fltchee* argent, Howard; 2nd and 3rd, argent, a lion rampant, gules. (Crest, On a chapeau, gules, turned up, ermine, a lion passant guardant, or, holding in the mouth an arrow in fesse, proper. Supporters, Two stags, proper, ducally gorged and chained, or, and charged on the shoulder with a cross crosslet, fltchee, argent. Seats, Shelton-abbey, Arklow, (co.) Wicklow; and Castle-Forward, (co.) Donegal, Ireland. Clubs, Carlton, White's, Boodle's, Army and Navy. WICKLOW, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his uncle, William, K.P. 4th Earl of Wicklow. He was d.Feb. 13, 1788, and succeeded his father, Sept. 27, 1818 ; was Lord Lieut, and Custos Rotulorum of Wicklow, 1831 66, as well as a Repre- sentative Peer for Ireland : m. Feb. 16, 1816, Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton, 4th daughter of the 1st Marquess of Abercorn, K.G. (she d. i860) ; and d. March 22, 1869, Waving had issue seven daughters. Wigan, Baron, title of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres on Eoll of H.L. Wilbranam, (Bootle-Wilbraham), family name of Baron Skelmersdale. Wilde, surname of Baron Penzance. family name of Baron Tmro. Willoughby, family name of Baron Middleton. ,, (Heathcote-Drummond- Willoughby), surname of Ba- roness Willoughby De Eresby, and of Baron Aveland.
- Raised to the rank of an Earl's son and daughters by Royal Warrant, 1870.
