Howard

(hou'ŭrd,) the patronymic of a noble English house, eminent in history; the chief of which, the Duke of Norfolk, ranks as the premier peer of his country. Among the most distinguished of its members were LORD HOWARD OF EFFING HAM (1536-1624), Lord High Admiral of England, who defeated the Spanish Armada.HENRY, EARL OF SURREY, the earliest of England's cla ical poets, (1516-47). -GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK,EARL OF CAR LISLE, author and statesman, (1802-64.)-THOMAS, 2d DUKE OF NORFOLK (1454-1524), who won the great battle of Flodden over the Scots;- his son, THOMAS, 3d DUKE OF NORFOLK, and Lord Treasurer, (1473-1553); his grandson, THOMAS, 4th Duke, executed in 1572 for an alleged conspiracy in favor of Mary Queen of Scots.THOMAS, EARL OF ARUNDEL (1591-1616), the collector of the famous Arundel Marbles now at Oxford-and CATHERINE, 3d queen of Henry VIII. Fig. 395.-A HOUSSA GIRL. [s. 464]