Hugh Howard (27 January 1761 – 3 November 1840), styled The Honourable from 1776, was an Anglo-Irish politician.
Howard was born in 1761 as a younger son of Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow and the former Alice Forward who was made suo jure Countess of Wicklow in 1793 after the death of his father.
[1] Howard was elected to the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for St Johnstown in 1790, and held the seat until its disenfranchisement following the Acts of Union 1800.
When Viscount Wicklow resigned the command, Howard was promoted to substantive lieutenant-colonel and Colonel to succeed him on 17 August 1797.
[3][4] On 20 December 1792, Howard was married to Catharine Bligh, the second daughter of Very Rev.