The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF NOBFOLK.

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We have to announce that the recent illness of
the Duke of Norfolk has at last, as was anticipated
for some weeks previously, bad a fatal termination,
and that his Grace died on Sunday at Arundel
Castle, whither he had been removed from his villa
at Littlehampton shortly before his death, after
having received the last rites and sacraments of the
Roman Catholic Church, of which he was through
life a firm and devoted adherent. The Duke had
been ailing for some months past, but the immedi-
ate cause of his dissolution was an enlargement of
the liver, under which he sank, as we have said
above. The Duke had just completed the 45th year
of his age, and his Duchess and other members of
the family were present at his dissolution.
The deceased Peer, the Most Noble Henry Gran-
ville Fitz-Alan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, Pre-
mier Duke and Earl in the peerage of England,
Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, and Baron
Fitz-Alan, Clun, Oswaldestre, and Maltravers,
Hereditary Earl-Marshal and Chief Butler of
England, was the eldest son of Henry Charles, 13th
Duke of Norfolk, K.G., by the Lady Charlotte
Leveson -Gower, eldest daughter of George Gran-
ville, Marquis of Stafford, who was eventually
raised in 1833 to the Dukedom of Sutherland, and
died the same year, He was born in Great Stan-
hope-street, London, on the 7th of November, 1815.
Although a Roman Catholic by profession, he was
sent to Eton, and passed thence to Trinity College,
Cambridge, where he completed his education. He
entered the army as cornet in the Royal Horse
Guards, but retired soon after attaining the rank
of captain. He entered Parliament at the general
election consequent on the death of the late King
in July, 1837, as M.P. in the Liberal interest for
the family borough of Arundel, which he repre-
sented without intermission (while bearing the
courtesy titles of Lord Fitz-Alan and Earl of
Arundel and Surrey) down to the middle of the
year 1851, when, finding that his sentiments on the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill were not in unison with
those of the " patron" of the constituency—his

father, Lho late cacoepted the Orailtciu
Hundreds, and was immediately returned by the
electors of Limerick, Mr, John O'Connell retiring
in his favour. He left the House of Commons at
the dissolution of 1852.
The Earl of Arundel and Surrey succeeded to the
honours and representation of the noble house of
Howard on the death of his father, the late Duke,
on the 18th of February, 1856, so that his Grace had
held the dukedom for a period of somewhat less
than five years. The late Duke was a magistrate
for the counties of,Middlesex and Sussex, and en-
joyed the entire patronage of the College of Arms
(better known to the public under the name of the
Heralds' College), and also of 17 livings in the Es-
tablished Church. He was a large and liberal sup-
porter of Roman Catholio charities, and took a warm
interest in all public affairs which affected the in-
terests of his religion, both in his place as a peer of
Parliament and in his private capacity. He pub-
lished one or two pamphlets on the various Roman
Catholic questions which have risen to the surface
of current events during the last 12 or 15 years.
He also edited the Lives of Philip, Earl of Arun-
del, and Anne Dacre, his wife. He seldom or never
addressed either the Upper or the Lower House,
excepting upon topics of this nature ; and when-
ever he spoke on these subjects his moderation and
courtesy uniformly commanded the respect even of
those whose religious opinions differed most widely
from his own.

The late Duke married in June, 1839, Augusta
Mary Minna Catherine, second daughter of the late
Admiral Lord Lyons, G.C.8., by whom, who sur-
vives him, he has left a family of two sons and six
daughters, besides two children who died in infancy.
It was his Grace's younger son, Lord Edmund Ber-
nard Howard, in favour of whom Bertram Arthur
late Earl of Shrewsbury, made his will, bequeathing
to him the magnificent estate of Alton Towers, out
of which bequest arose the long and costly suit
which will be known to our distant posterity as
" The Great Shrewsbury Case." The elder son,
Henry Fitz• Alan Howard, Earl of Arundel and
Surrey, who now succeeds his father, was born on
the 27th of December, 1847, so that he is now on
the eve of completing his 13th year. The Duke
also leaves two sisters, Lady Foley and Lady
Adeliza Manners, and also a brother, Lord Edward
Howard, M.P. for Arundel, formerly Vice-Cham-
berlain of her Majesty's Household, who is married
to Miss Augusta Talbot, cousin of the Earl of
Shrewsbury.
The ducal house of Norfolk is one whose fate it
has been, beyond all others among the English
nobility, to find its name interwoven with the
thread of English history, and not rarely in colours
of blood. The accomplished but unfortunate
Surrey, and his scarcely less unhappy father, Thomas
Howard—whose head was only saved from the
block on which his son so nobly suffered by the
death of the Royal tyrant' Henry—are " household ,
words" in the pages of English history; and readers
of Shakspeare will have other recollections of the
same name allied with other historical events ;
while those who are familiar with the writings of
Pope will not have forgotten how tersely and
pointedly he typifies the glory of ancestral pedi-
grees, by
"All the blood of all the Howards."

Neither must the words of "all the Howards" be
taken in a mere vague and poetical sense. They
represent a fact, and a remarkable one. In the
British Peerage there are no less than four
different branches and offshoots of the ducal house
of Norfolk who have attained the dignity of the
coronet—viz., the Earls of Carlisle, Effingham.
Wicklow, and Suffolk, to say nothing of Lord
de Walden (who descends from them mater-
nally), or of Sir Ralph Howard, of Bushy-
park, Wicklow, or of the untitled but scarcely
less noble scions of the house, the Howards of
Corby Castle and of Greystock, in Cumberland,
both of whom are in remainder to the dukedom in
the event of the failure of the present line.
The death of the Duke will be a heavy loss. to
the Roman Catholic churches and charitable asso-
ciations connected with the metropolis and the
south of England, and more especially to the Ora-
torians of St. Philip Neri, at Brompton, of whom
he was a most steady and munificent supporter.