Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow (7 August 1757 – 23 October 1815) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
[2] He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for St Johnstown between 1776 and 1789.
Following the implementation of the Acts of Union 1800 he was elected as one of the original 28 Irish representative peer and took his seat in the British House of Lords.
[1][2] On the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War he raised the Wicklow Militia under the Militia Act (Ireland) 1793, and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commanding on 25 April 1793 (he was later promoted to Colonel with the same date of seniority).
He resigned his command in August 1797, and his brother, the Hon Hugh Howard, was appointed to succeed him.