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Howard (Earl of Surrey and third Duke)

Earl of Surrey, and third Duke of Norfolk, an eminent statesman and naval and military commander, distinguished at the battle of Flodden, 1488- 1554. EDWARD, a younger brother of the preceding, and admiral of England, killed in action with the French in 1512.

HENRY, Earl of Surrey, eldest son of Thomas, the first polite writer of love verses in the English tongue, beheaded on a charge of high treason, 1516-1546.

HENRY, 2d son of the poet, and Earl of Northampton, a man of letters, implicated in the murder of Overbury, 1539- 1614. CHARLES, known as Lord Effingham and Earl of Nottingham, and grandson of the Duke of Norfolk, commander of the channel fleet on the invasion of England by the Spanish Armada, 1536- 1624. THOMAS, Earl of Arundel, Arundel, and earl marshal in the reign of Charles I., diplomatist and antiquary, died 1646.

HOWARD HENRY, his 2d son, and 6th Duke of Norfolk, by whom the Arundelian marbles, collected by his father, were presented to the University of Oxford, about 1668.

CHARLES, 11th Duke of Norfolk, and formerly Earl of Surrey, known as a statesman in opposition to Lord North and Pitt, 1746-1815.