Charles Francis Arnold Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow (5 November 1839 – 20 June 1881) was an Anglo-Irish peer.
[1][2] He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, before purchasing a commission as a Cornet in the 11th Hussars on 18 December 1860.
In 1872 he was elected as an Irish representative peer and assumed his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.
[1] He did not marry, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Cecil Howard, following his death in 1881.
[1][2] Much of his life was spent defending himself against the legal challenge against him by Ellen Howard, wife of his late half-brother, William.