Biography:
Henry Molyneux Paget Howard was born 13 September 1877, the elder son of Henry Charles Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk and 11th Earl of Berkshire. His mother was Mary Lauderdale, daughter of the Hon. Henry Coventry.
Henry came to Winchester College from Revd LGW Wesley's school in September 1891. He was in H House, Bramston's, and played in Commoner XV in 1894.
He left Winchester in December 1894 and in 1898 he succeeded to the title as nineteenth Earl of Suffolk and twelfth Earl of Berkshire, and the same year went out to India as ADC on the staff of the Viceroy, Lord Curzon. He returned to England in 1904 to live at Charlton Park and took an active part in local affairs. Some time before the war he helped to raise and equip a battery of field artillery for Wiltshire, and at the outbreak of war held the rank of Major. A few months later he was sent to India and after a period in garrison at Meerut, took over command of a battery in Mesopotamia in the autumn of 1916.
He fell on 21 April 1917 during the victorious advance on Baghdad, hit in the chest by a Turkish shrapnel shell at the age of thirty-nine. He was buried on the battlefield, but was later buried in Grave III.S.1 of the Basra War Cemetery. He commanded his battery throughout, and especially on the day of his death, with the greatest skill, and was once mentioned in Despatches.
In 1904 he married Miss Marguerite Hyde Leiter of Washington, and left three sons. He was devoted to all outdoor sports, being a Steward of the National Hunt Committee, and enjoyed much popularity among his tenants.