Stafford Howard

Sir Edward Stafford Howard KCB DL JP (28 November 1851 – 8 April 1916) was a British Liberal politician and magistrate.

[4] He served briefly as Under-Secretary of State for India from April to July 1886 in William Ewart Gladstone's short-lived third administration.

[7] Howard married firstly Lady Rachel Anne Georgina, daughter of John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor, in 1876.

He married secondly, in 1911, Catharine Meriel, MBE,[8] only child of Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, 11th/2nd and last Baronet, by hon.

He married, firstly, Ursula Priscilla Marie Gabrielle, daughter of Colonel Sir Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet, on 15 July 1936 (they divorced in 1940), and secondly, Mary Gracia (1913–2004), daughter of George Wilder Neville, of Portsmouth, Virginia, and New York City, on 24 October 1940.

By his first wife, he had the GCHQ operative and mathematician Nicholas Stafford Howard (20 July 1937 – 17 February 2008), of Johnby Hall, Penrith,[15] and by his second he had two daughters and a further son, Lt.-Col. Murray Bernard Neville Cyprian Howard, OBE (born 1942), who inherited Greystoke Castle.