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 | | He was the second son of Emmanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, who died governor of Barbadoes in March 1735, and of Mary Sophia Charlotte, a daughter of the baroness Kilmansegge, afterwards countess of Darlington, the mistress of George I. a relationship which does much to explain his early rise in the navy. |
 | | Howe next served in the West Indies in the Burford, and was present in her when she was very severely damaged in the unsuccessful attack on La Guayra on the 18th of February 1742. |
 | | Lord Howe married, on the f 0th of March 1758, Mary Hariop, the daughter of Colonel Chiverton Hartop of Welby in Leicestershire, and had issue two daughters, His Irish title descended to his brother William, the general, who died childless in 1814. |
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