Fulk Greville Howard

'Hon. Fulk or Fulke Greville Howard (3 April 1773 – 4 March 1846), of Elford Hall, Staffordshire and Castle Rising, Norfolk, was an English politician. In early life he was known as Fulk Greville Upton.

Life

He was born at

. He took his wife's surname of Howard on 6 August 1807, shortly after their marriage.

He joined the Army and was an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards (1793), lieutenant and captain (1794), captain and lieutenant-colonel (1804), lieutenant-colonel of the 7th West Indian Regiment (1807). Reduced to half-pay, he commanded the Irish 9th garrison battalion (July 1807), was brevet colonel in 1813 and fully retired in 1825. He took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland during the French Revolutionary Wars in 1799, losing the sight of one eye in the Helder Expedition.

He was a

from 29 January 1808 to 1832.

He had married Mary, the daughter and heiress of Richard Howard (formerly Bagot) of Elford Hall, Staffordshire and

Castle Rising

. They had no children and his property was therefore dispersed among his relatives.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.^[1]

References

• "HOWARD, Hon. Fulk Greville (1773-1846), of Elford Hall, Staffs. and Castle Rising, Norf". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 12 May 2014.