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Encyclopedia: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
 | | SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF English poet, son of Lord Thomas Howard, afterwards 3rd duke of Norfolk, and his wife Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of the duke of Buckingham, was born probably in 1518. |
 | | Surrey had always been an enemy to the Seymours, whom he regarded as upstarts, and when his sister, the duchess of Richmond, seemed disposed to accept a marriage with Sir Thomas Seymour, he wrote to her insinuating that this was a step towards becoming the mistress of Henry VIII. |
 | | Surrey had asserted in the presence of a certain George Blage, who was inclined to the reforming movement, that on Henrys death, his father, the duke of Norfolk, as the premier duke in England, had the obvious right of acting as regent to Prince Edward. |
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