Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk
- Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal (11 December 1683 – 23 December 1732) was an English peer and politician.
- He was the son of Lord Thomas Howard and Mary Elizabeth Savile.
- Upon the death of his uncle Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, he inherited the titles of 17th Baron Furnivall and 8th Duke of Norfolk.
- He married Maria Shireburn, daughter of Sir Nicholas Shireburn, 1st and last Bt., of Stonyhurst Hall, on 26 May 1709, when she was age 16 and a half, with a fortune of more than £30,000.At the time of the Jacobite Rising of 1715 he used his influence to secure the acquittal of his brother Edward on the charge of high treason.
- The Duke himself was arrested on 29 October 1722 under suspicion of involvement in a Jacobite plot, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
- His wife, refused permission to visit, prevailed upon the Earl of Carlisle to act as surety for his bail in May 1723.
- Howard was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England from 1729-30.His marriage is said to have been unhappy, and his wife, a staunch Catholic and Jacobite, separated from him when he—in her words—"truckled to the Usurper".The Duke died childless on 23 December 1732 at age 49.
- Upon his death, the title passed to his brother Edward.
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