Frederick Howard (British Army officer)

Frederick Howard (6 December 1785 – 18 June 1815) was a British Army officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

He is the "young, gallant Howard" mentioned in Lord Byron's poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage".

[2] Howard, who commanded a squadron of the 10th Hussars in Vivian's Brigade, was killed leading a charge at the very end of the Battle of Waterloo.

In 1879, his remains were moved again and re-interred in the family mausoleum at Castle Howard, Yorkshire.

[4][2] After his death, his widow remarried Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish in 1819, and had a further six children.

The dying Howard on the field of Waterloo; detail from a print of The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo by Daniel Maclise , 1861.