Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe
(1700-1735)
BIRTH
1700
PLACE
DEATH
1735
PLACE
Barbados, British West Indies
FAMILY
FATHER
Richard Howe
(1726-1799)
WIFE
Charlotte Howe, Viscountess Howe
(1703-1782)
CHILDREN
George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
(c. 1725-1758)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, was a British politician born about 1700. He inherited the family title and Langar estate in 1713 and represented Nottinghamshire in Parliament from 1722. After financial difficulties, he accepted the governorship of Barbados in 1733 and died there in 1735. He married Charlotte von Kielmansegg; their sons included soldiers George and William Howe and admiral Richard Howe. His colonial administration preceded their military careers.
EARLY LIFE
Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe was born 1700. The external genealogical record identifies Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe and Juliana Alington as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, served as governor of Barbados from 1733 to 1735.
CAREER
DEATH
Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, served as governor of Barbados from 1733 to 1735. In 1730 he inherited the Howe baronetcy, which merged with the viscountcy. He accepted the duke's advice and from 1733 served as governor of Barbados until dying there of disease in 1735. Emanuel Howe died in 1735, in Barbados, British West Indies. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, the Barbados governor and father of the Howe commanders. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women behind Britain's Wars for America — Julie Flavell. [Family biography] Find on Amazon
2. The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution — Ira D. Gruber. [Related family biography] Find on Amazon
3. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1715–1754 — Romney Sedgwick (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
4. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography — H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (editors). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. The Complete Peerage, Volume VI — G. E. Cokayne; H. A. Doubleday; Howard de Walden (editors). [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
101429