Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham was the wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, and the mother of both Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, and Richard Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham.
The Countess of Effingham by Benjamin West, 1797
Funeral hatchment in Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges
Field Marshal Sir George Howard KB PC was a British Army officer and politician. After commanding the 3rd Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Successi
Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham
…Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, and had children The Earl died in 1763, and the Countess remarried on 21 May 1771, her second husband being Field Marshal Sir George Howard, a relation of the earl. There were no children from this second marriage. From 1761 until her own death in 1791, she was a Lady of the Bedchamber to…
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1770
Funeral hatchment in Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges