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586 APPENDIX B REPRESENTATION OF THE ORDER IN VARIOUS FAMILIES The following families have each contributed several Knights to the Order, the Howards heading the list with 23 members, while the closely- allied houses of Mowbray and FitzAlan supply 1 1, making a total of 34. Howard, ist, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 12th, 13th and 15th (present) Dukes of Norfolk of that family; Sir Edward Howard the Admiral, the Earl of Surrey (son of the 3rd Duke), the ist Lord Howard of Effingham and his son the Earl of Nottingham (commander of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada), the ist, 2nd and 12th Earls of Suffolk of this line, the Earl of Northampton (Minister to James 1), the 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon, Thomas Earl of Arundel and Norfolk, the ist Earl of Berkshire, and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Earls of Carlisle of this family (23) Mowbray, ist, 3rd, 4th and 5th Dukes of Norfolk of this name (4) FitzAlan. 6th, 7th, 9th, iith, 12th, 13th and 14th Earls of Arundel of this name (7) Percy, ist, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th of the nine Earls of Northum- berland of the original line of the Percies, and six (all except the 5th) of the seven later Dukes descended from the marriage of Sir H. Smithson with the heiress of the older Percies; also Henry "Hotspur," Lord Percy, son, and Thomas Earl of Worcester, brother, of the ist Percy Earl of Northumberland (15) Stanley. Sir John Stanley and his grandson ist Lord Stanley, with nine out of seventeen of the Earls of Derby descended from them, viz. 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 15th and i6th; also Sir William Stanley, brother, and Lords Strange and Monteagle, sons of the first of these Earls (14) Beaufort and Somerset. John of Gaunt's sons, John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset and Thomas Beaufort, Duke ot Exeter, and the former's two sons John and Edmund, Dukes of Somerset (4) The 1st, 3rd and 4th Earls of Worcester of the Somerset family (the first being an illegitimate son of Henry, brother of John and Edmund, Dukes of Somerset), and the ist, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Dukes of Beaufort (9) Stuart and Lennox. Ludovic, Esme, James, and Charles, Stuart, Dukes of Lennox (of whom all but the second were also Dukes of Rich- mond) (4), and each of the seven Dukes of Richmond of the Lennox family (7) Grey. From one or other of the Grey families descended from Henry de Grey of Thurrock in Essex 10 Knights of the Garter were descended, viz.: the ist Lord Grey of Rotherfield, 4th Lord Grey of Codnor, Sir John Grey, son of 3rd Lord Grey of Ruthin, the three Marquesses of Dorset of this name (the last of whom