Henry Stafford-Howard, 1st Earl of Stafford

[6] His parents were both attainted on 7 December 1680 as Royalist supporters, before his father was falsely implicated by Titus Oates in the later discredited "Popish Plot".

Upon the accession of James II, his mother had her titles restored and was created 1st Countess of Stafford, for life, on 5 October 1688 in the Peerage of England, as a consolation for the failure to reverse the attainder on his father.

[10] Lord Stafford died without issue on 27 April 1719 and was succeeded, by special remainder, in his titles by his nephew, Henry Stafford-Howard.

His widow, who lived until 1739, was acquainted with Lord Hervey, who described her as having "as much wit, humour, and entertainment as any may or woman he ever knew, with a great justness in her way of thinking, and very little reserve in her manner of giving her opinion of things and people.

"[12] Lord Stafford inherited the 1433 Portrait of a Man in a Turban by Jan van Eyck, which had been owned by his grandfather, the well known art collector Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, in 1643.