Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard

Fitzalan-Howard and his elder brother, Miles, followed parallel courses in their education and career. Both were educated at Ampleforth College, before Oxford and Cambridge – Michael at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1935 to 1938, and Miles at Christ Church, Oxford.^[1] Both then took a commission in the British Army – Michael in the Scots Guards in 1938^[2] and Miles in the Grenadier Guards.^[1] Michael joined the 3rd Battalion of the Scots Guards when it was formed in April 1944.^[1]

Army career

As majors, the brothers both fought in tanks in the

Michael and Miles, both career officers, remained in the army after the war. Michael was best man at Miles' wedding in 1949.[1] Both were promoted to colonel in 1958, and then to brigadier in 1961.^[1] Miles became a major general in 1963, three months before his brother.^[1]

Fitzalan-Howard served as brigade major with the

He first married Jean Marion Hamilton-Dalrymple, daughter of Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 9th Baronet, on 4 March 1946. They had a daughter, (also named Jean), but her mother died shortly afterwards, on 28 July 1947. Their daughter, Jean, went on to become a lady-in-waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales.^{[citation needed]}

He remarried on 20 April 1950, to Jane Margaret Meade-Newman, daughter of Captain William Patrick Meade-Newman.^[1] They had a daughter and four sons. His second wife died on 25 December 1995.^[1]

He married again, on 2 July 1997, to Victoria Winifred Baring, daughter of Colonel Reginald Edmund Maghlin Russell and the widow of Sir Mark Baring.^[1]

Michael Fitzalan-Howard died, aged 91, in 2007, survived by his third wife, the daughter of his first marriage, and his five children from his second marriage.

References

External links

• Obituary in The Times, 14 November 2007
• Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 5 November 2007.
• Obituary, Old Amplefordians^{[permanent dead link]}