Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham
Gordon Frederick Henry Charles Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham( 18 May 1873 – 7 July 1946) was an English peer and member of the House of Lords.
The son of Hon. Frederick Charles Howard and grandson of Henry Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, he inherited the earldom in 1927 from his cousin, Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham.
Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham
Henry Alexander Gordon Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham DL( 15 August 1866 – 6 May 1927) was an English peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Lord Howard from 1889 to 1898.
He inherited the earldom from his father, Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham in 1898.
Effingham was a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
He was a Liberal Unionist in politics.
He was succeeded in the earldom by his first cousin, Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham.
Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland
Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland( c. 1456 – 6 February 1499) was an English peer.
He was the grandfather of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland.
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk, 7th Earl of Berkshire( 11 June 1721 – 23 February 1783) was a British peer, styled Hon. Thomas Howard until 1779.
Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham
Lieutenant-General Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham (1714 – 19 November 1763), styled Lord Howard from 1731 to 1743, was a British nobleman and Army officer, the son of Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham.
Lord Howard was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire on 19 February 1734.
On 7 January 1739, he was commissioned a guidon in the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, of which his father was then captain and colonel.
He was promoted first lieutenant and captain on 10 May 1740.
Upon his father's death in February 1743, he succeeded him as Earl of Effingham, and subsequently as Deputy Earl Marshal.
On 11 April 1743, Effingham was made first lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel in the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards.
He married Elizabeth Beckford, daughter of Peter Beckford and sister of William Beckford on 14 February 1745, by whom he had children including:
Effingham was appointed an aide-de-camp to the King on 20 August 1749, and received the colonelcy of the 34th Regiment of Foot on 2 December 1754.
He was promoted major-general on 15 January 1758 and lieutenant-general on 22 February 1760.
On 30 October 1760, he left the 34th to become Captain and Colonel of the 1st Troop Horse Grenadier Guards.
Effingham died three years later and was succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas.
Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Nottingham( 17 September
1579 – 3 October 1642) of Effingham, Surrey was the second( but eldest surviving) son of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham.
His mother was the former Catherine Carey.
From 1615 to 1624 he was styled Lord Howard of Effingham before he succeeding his father in the latter year as 2nd Earl of Nottingham.
He was a Member of Parliament five times between 1597 and 1614, for Bletchingley and for Surrey in 1597, for Sussex in 1601 and 1604 and for New Shoreham in the Addled Parliament of 1614.
He was knighted in 1603 and later appointed Vice- Admiral of Sussex for life.
He was married first on 19 May 1597 to Charity White( d. 18 December 1618), daughter to Robert White and secondly, on 22 April 1620, to Mary Cokayne, daughter of Sir William Cockayne, Lord Mayor of London in 1619.
There were no known children from either marriage and he was therefore succeeded by his half- brother, Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham.
The senior school in Effingham, Surrey, the Howard of Effingham School, is named after him.
Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, PC (13 January 1746 – 19 November 1791), styled Lord Howard until 1763, was a British nobleman and Army officer, the son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, and his wife Elizabeth.
He is best known for resigning his commission in protest against the war against the North American colonies.
This widely reported act was commemorated by the North American colonists in the naming of a galley in 1775, and later the frigate USS "Effingham" in 1777, as well as in the naming of Effingham, New Hampshire, Effingham County, Georgia, and Effingham County, Illinois.
He died at the age of 45, while serving as Governor of Jamaica, a month and five days after his wife, leaving no heir.
His title passed to his brother Richard.
During the events leading up to the American Revolution, the Earl was neither a Patriot or a Loyalist, he was a Neutralist; he was not on either side.
The Earl of Effingham disliked both sides: the royal government for taxing, and the colonists for rebelling.
Howard believed that the conflicts had a negative impact on Great Britain and the colonies.
He was devoted to his King and country, and was willing to lose his life while protecting the realm from attack.
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk,( 10 February 1606 /16077 January 1688), was grandson of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, and was also 3rd Baron Howard de Walden.
He was succeeded in the earldom, a revival of an earlier title held by distant ancestors and re-created for his grandfather Thomas Howard, by two of his brothers.
He acted as Earl Marshal for the coronation of Charles II.
Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham
Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham( died 13 October 1791), formerly Elizabeth Beckford, was the wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, and was the mother of both Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, and Richard Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham.
She was the daughter of Peter Beckford, the Speaker of Jamaica's House of Assembly, and his wife, the former Bathsuba Hering.
Her brother was William Beckford, who was Lord Mayor of London on two occasions.
She married the earl on 14 February 1745.
In addition to Thomas Howard and Richard Howard, their children included:
The earl died in 1763, and the countess remarried on 21 May 1771, her second husband being Field Marshal Sir George Howard, a relation of the earl.
There were no children from this second marriage.
From 1761 until her own death in 1791, she was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom.
She died at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, where her second husband was governor.
By coincidence, her daughter- in- law Catherine died within a few days of her, while travelling from her home in Jamaica by sea to New York.
Elizabeth's elder son, Catherine's husband, who had inherited the earldom, died only a few weeks later.
Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire
Thomas Howard, 3rd
Earl of Berkshire( 14 November 1619 – 12 April 1706) was an English peer, styled Hon. Thomas Howard until 1679.
He was the second son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire.
Howard represented Wallingford in Parliament from 1640 to 1646.
He was colonel of a regiment of Royalist horse in 1643, and subsequently a brigadier.
In 1661, after the English Restoration, he was rewarded with the sinecure office of Clerk of the Markets of the Household.
Thomas inherited the earldom after the death of his childless brother, Charles in 1679.
He was succeeded by his great- nephew Henry Howard, who then united the earldoms of Suffolk and Berkshire.
He was reputed to have fathered at least one illegitimate child, Moll Davies, who became an actress and mistress to Charles II, bearing him a daughter, Lady Mary Tudor who married the Earl of Derwentwater.
Moll Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster and was said by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, to be" a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire"- probably meaning Thomas Howard, third Earl of Berkshire.

Question: Who is Thomas Howard, 3Rd Earl Of Effingham's paternal grandfather?
Answer: Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham