Question: What is the date of death of William Howard, 8Th Earl Of Wicklow's father?

Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow
Ralph Francis Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow (24 December 1877 – 11 October 1946) was an Irish aristocrat and politician.
William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow
William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow KP( 13 February 1788 – 22 March 1869) was an Anglo- Irish peer, styled Lord Clonmore from 1815 to 1818.
He was the eldest son of William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow and Eleanor Caulfeild.
He became Earl of Wicklow in 1818 on the death of his father, and on 10 November 1821 he was elected as an Irish representative peer, thus enabling him to sit in the House of Lords as a Tory.
Between 1831 and his death he served as the first Lord Lieutenant of Wicklow, and he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 9 October 1846.
On 16 February 1816 he married Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton, the only child of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn by his second wife, Cecil Hamilton.
He had no male issue, and was succeeded in his title by his nephew, Charles Howard.
Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury
Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury, 8th Earl of Waterford( christened 25 February 1561 – 8 February 1617), was the younger brother and nearest male heir of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, whom he succeeded as Earl of Shrewsbury and Lord High Steward of Ireland in 1616.
William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle
William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle( 23 February 1808 – 29 March 1889) was an English clergyman and peer.
He was born in London the third son of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
He succeeded to the title on the death of his elder brother George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle on 5 December 1864, he never married.
He was Rector of Londesborough( a living in the gift of the Earl of Londesborough) in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1832 for more than forty years until 1877, although from 1866, due to Lord Howard's mentally incapacity, his duties were performed by his replacement.
On his death the title passed to his nephew George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle.
Cecil Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow
Cecil Ralph Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow( 26 March 1842 – 24 July 1891) was an Anglo- Irish British Army officer and peer.
He was the son of Rev. Hon. Francis Howard, the son of William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow, and Sarah Hamilton.
In 1864 he was commissioned as an Ensign in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1867 and to captain in 1876.
In 1870 he was granted the style and precedence of the younger son of an earl by Royal Warrant.
He retired from the regular army in 1877, but joined the Artillery Militia as a captain in 1879.
He succeeded his brother, Charles Howard as Earl of Wicklow on 20 June 1881.
On 23 January 1888 he was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords.
He was married twice, and was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, Ralph Howard.
William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow
William Cecil James Philip John Paul Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow (30 October 1902 – 8 February 1978), styled Lord Clonmore until 1946, was an Anglo-Irish peer.
He was the only child of Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow and the Countess of Wicklow, formerly Lady Gladys Mary Hamilton.
His maternal grandparents were the 2nd Duke of Abercorn and Lady Mary Anna Curzon-Howe.
He was known as Lord Clonmore until succeeding to the Earldom in 1946.
He was first educated at Wixenford, from where he passed the examination to enter the Royal Naval College, Osborne, in May 1916.
However, in the event he proceeded to Eton College before Magdalen College, Oxford, and St Stephen's House, Oxford.
He was then ordained a deacon and priest of the Church of England.
Among his Oxford associates were Glyn Simon, Evelyn Waugh, and John Betjeman.
He was part of the Hypocrites' Club.
He worked for the Magdalen Mission at St Mary's Church in Somers Town.
Having been a zealous Anglo-Catholic, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1932, and thereafter lived as a layman.
He was disinherited by his father and banished from the family seat in Ireland on Sundays because he was thought to be an embarrassment on account of his attending Mass with the servants, who were also Roman Catholics.
During the Second World War he was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers and rose to the rank of Captain.
In 1946 he succeeded his father as Earl of Wicklow.
In the 1950s he wrote on religious subjects and was also active as a translator.
On 2 September 1959 he married Eleanor Butler, an architect who had been a member of the Seanad Éireann between 1948 and 1951.
They had no children.
When he died in 1978 the titles passed to his first cousin, Cecil Aylmar Howard, the ninth earl.
When the ninth earl died in 1983, the titles became extinct..
Edward Howard, 8th Earl of Suffolk
Edward Howard, 8th Earl of Suffolk (1672 - 22 Jun 1731) was an English peer.
Edward Howard was the second son of Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk, and his wife Mary Stewart.
He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He succeeded his nephew Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk in 1722.
He was succeeded by his younger brother Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk.
William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow
William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow PC( I)( January 1761 – 27 September 1818), known as William Forward between 1780 and 1815, was an Anglo- Irish politician and peer.
Howard was the second son of Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow and his wife, Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow.
In 1780 he took the surname of Forward after succeeding to the estates of his mother's family.
Between 1783 and 1800 he served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for St Johnstown.
In 1793 was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
From 1800 to 1808 he was Treasurer of the Irish Post Office and from 1814 Governor of Wicklow.
He reverted his surname to Howard after succeeding his brother, Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow, as Earl in 1815.
On 31 March 1787 he married Eleanor Caulfeild, the only daughter of Hon. Francis Caulfeild MP.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, William Howard.
William Howard Taft IV
William Howard Taft IV( born September 13, 1945) is an attorney who has served in the United States government under several Republican administrations.
He is the son of William Howard Taft III and the great- grandson of President William Howard Taft.
Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow
Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow( 7 August 1757 – 23 October 1815) was an Anglo- Irish politician and peer.
Howard was the eldest son of Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow and his wife, Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow.
Howard's mother had been made a peeress in her own right following the death of her husband.
He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for St Johnstown between 1776 and 1789.
On 26 June 1789 he succeeded to his father's title, forcing him to resign his seat in the Commons, and he assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.
Following the implementation of the Acts of Union 1800 he was elected as one of the original 28 Irish representative peers and took his seat in the British House of Lords.
Following his mother's death on 7 March 1807 he succeeded to his mother's title as Earl of Wicklow.
He never married, and was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother, William Howard.

Answer: 11 October 1946