RARE "13th Duke of Norfolk" Henry Howard Clipped Signature For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "13th Duke of Norfolk" Henry Howard Clipped Signature.

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Henry

Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC (12

August 1791 – 18 February 1856), styled Earl of Surrey between

1815 and 1842, was a British Whig politician

and peer. Norfolk was the son of Bernard

Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Elizabeth, 2nd Earl Fauconberg. He gained the courtesy title Earl of Surrey when his father succeeded

as Duke of Norfolk in 1815. On 4 May 1829 Norfolk, then Earl of Surrey, was

elected to the House of Commons for Horsham.

When he took his seat he became the first Roman Catholic to sit in the House after Catholic

emancipation. Surrey held the Horsham seat until 1832, and then

represented West Sussex between 1832 and 1841. He was sworn of

the Privy

Council in 1837 and served of the Household between

1837 and 1841. In the latter year he was summoned to the House of Lords through

a writ of acceleration in

his father's junior title of Baron Maltravers and served briefly under

Melbourne as Captain of the Yeomen of

the Guard between July and August 1841. The following year

he succeeded his father in the dukedom of Norfolk. When the Whigs returned to

office under Lord John Russell in 1846, Norfolk was made Master of the Horse, a position he retained until the

government fell in 1852. He later served as Lord Steward of the government between

1853 and 1854. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter in

1848. In 1854, Norfolk agreed to lease land to Sheffield Cricket Club near Bramall Lane for ninety-nine years, a site which is now

home to Sheffield United.