Sir Henry Francis Howard GCB (3 November 1809 – 28 January 1898) was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries.
He was a member of the aristocratic Howard family, influential Catholic nobility.
[1][2] Howard was born at Corby Castle, Cumberland, the second son of antiquarian Henry Howard and his second wife, Catherine Mary Neave, daughter of Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet.
His elder brother Philip Henry Howard (1801–1883), who became a Member of Parliament for Carlisle.
They had two daughters before she died in 1835 in Munich:[3][13] In 1841, he married Baroness Marie Ernestine von der Schulenburg, fifth daughter of Leopold von der Schulenburg [de] of Gut Priemern [de], Prussia.