Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk (21 November 1765 – 16 March 1842), was a British peer.

Howard was the son of Henry Howard (1713–1787) by his wife Juliana Molyneux, daughter of Sir William Molyneux, 6th Baronet (died 1781), of Teversall, Nottinghamshire, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire 1737.

He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1803.

[2] In 1834, the Duke of Norfolk was invested by King William IV into the Order of the Garter.

Before the couple divorced five years later in May 1794, they were the parents of:[4] His wife later remarried to Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan, whose elder sister was Lavinia Spencer, Countess Spencer; they had several children, but this marriage was also ill-fated as they became estranged after 1804.