1059 Henry Howard

Constituency : Penrith  1885-6

Henry  won  the  new  seat  of  Penrith.

Henry  was  an  aristocrat, a  nephew  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk. He  lived  at  Graystoke  Castle.

Henry  never  spoke  in  the  Commons.

Henry  joined  the  Liberal  Unionists  and  gave  up  his  seat  to  James  Lowther  in  1886. He  tried  to  wrest  Eskdale  away  from  Robert  Allison  in  1892  and  1895. Both  times  it  was  close  but  Henry  was  unsuccessful.

Henry  was  chairman  of  Cumberland  County Council  between  1892  and  1913. He  founded  a  Dairy  and  Demonstration  School  in  Cumbria  in  the  1890s.

He  died  in  1914  aged  63.