Baron Howard of Escrick was a title in the Peerage of England

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. It was created on 12 April 1628 for the Honourable Edward Howard

Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick

Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick was a British nobleman and Parliamentarian.Howard was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk. He was knighted KB. In 1624 he was elected Member of Parliament for Calne and for Wallingford and chose to sit for Calne...

. A member of the influential Howard family, he was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk

Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk

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, the son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

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 by his second wife Margaret Audley (see Earl of Suffolk

Earl of Suffolk

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 and Duke of Norfolk

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 for more information). The third Baron represented Winchelsea

Winchelsea (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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 and was also accused of being involved in the Rye House Plot

Rye House Plot

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. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the fourth Baron, in 1715.

Barons Howard of Escrick (1628)

• Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick
  Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick
  Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick was a British nobleman and Parliamentarian.Howard was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk. He was knighted KB. In 1624 he was elected Member of Parliament for Calne and for Wallingford and chose to sit for Calne...
  
   (d. 1675)
• Thomas Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Escrick (1625–1678)
• William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick
  William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick
  William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick was an English Parliamentarian soldier, nobleman, and plotter.-Life:He was the second son of Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick. He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1646, and was then admitted to Lincoln's Inn...
  
  (d. 1694)
• Charles Howard, 4th Baron Howard of Escrick (d. 1715)