Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon

Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon. Portrait attributed to Robert Peake. c. 1560s
Coat of Arms of Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon

Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon (c. 1520 – 1582) was an English peer and politician.

Life

He was the younger son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Stafford.[1] In 1526 his father acquired the wardship of Elizabeth Marney, daughter and co-heir of John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney and three years later purchased the right of her marriage from the master of the king's wards. The marriage of Thomas and Elizabeth took place at Norfolk House, Lambeth on 14 May 1533.[2] Through this marriage Thomas acquired a number of manors in Dorset.[3]

In 1547 his father and elder brother were convicted of treason and Thomas consequently lost his status as a peer. He was given a general pardon and restored to the rank of baron by Edward VI.[4] His father remained a prisoner in the Tower of London, where Thomas was allowed to visit him in April 1551.[5]

He served as Custos Rotulorum of Dorset and Vice-Admiral of Dorset. In the latter role he was ineffective in putting down piracy, in which his kinsman Sir Richard Rogers of Bryanston was directly involved.[6] On 13 January 1559, he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Howard of Bindon by Elizabeth I.[7] He took his title from Bindon Abbey in Dorset, which he had acquired with other property from the death of Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings and his wife Katherine without an heir.[8] In the 1560s he further extended his estate in Dorset by acquiring Buckland Newton, Cattistock and Marnhull from Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.[9]

In Elizabeth's reign he apparently adopted a position of outward conformity, but remained under suspicion concerning his religious views. In 1562 he accompanied Bishop Jewel on the ecclesiastical Visitation of the Western diocese, [10] but was omitted by the Privy Council from the commission set up to search for Jesuits and seminary priests in Dorset. However, he was trusted to search the house linked to the Jesuit James Bosgrave in Bere Regis.[11] In 1573 he had prevented John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton from going abroad for religious reasons.[12] Despite the execution of his nephew Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk for treason, Thomas's loyalty to Elizabeth I was never called into question and until the end of his life he was charged with the defence of Dorset's coast.[13]

In 1567 the poet George Turberville included a dedication to Thomas in a translation of Ovid.[14]

During the last five years of his life he was engaged in a bitter feud with his son and heir Henry.[15] He died in 1582 and was buried at Marnhull.[16]

Marriages and Issue

Thomas married 4 times:

1) Elizabeth Marney, daughter and co-heir of John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney (first wife)[17]:

2) Gertrude Lyte, daughter of Sir William Lyte of Lillesdon, Somerset[17][18]

3) Mabel Burton, daughter of Nicholas Burton of Carshalton, Surrey[17]:

4) Margaret Manning, daughter of Henry Manning of Greenwich[17]

References

  1. ^ Head, David M. (2009). The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune. p. 51.
  2. ^ Head 2009, p. 248.
  3. ^ Hutchins, John (1774a). The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset. Vol. 1. p. 466.
  4. ^ Head 2009, p. 230.
  5. ^ Head 2009, p. 231.
  6. ^ Lloyd, Rachel (1967). Dorset Elizabethans at home and abroad. pp. 13, 16.
  7. ^ Hutchins 1774a, p. 128.
  8. ^ Hutchins 1774a, p. 137.
  9. ^ Hutchins, John (1774b). The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset. Vol. 2. pp. 253, 396.
  10. ^ Lloyd 1967, p. 63.
  11. ^ Lloyd 1967, p. 88.
  12. ^ Lloyd 1967, p. 117.
  13. ^ Lloyd 1967, pp. 165–9.
  14. ^ Lloyd 1967, p. 132.
  15. ^ Lloyd 1967, pp. 39–41.
  16. ^ Hutchins 1774b, pp. 401, 402.
  17. ^ a b c d Hutchins 1774b, pp. 401.
  18. ^ a b c Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc. 1887. p. 20.
  19. ^ Hutchins 1774a, p. 161.
  20. ^ Hutchins 1774a, pp. 42, 49.
Political offices
New title Vice-Admiral of Dorset
1551–1580 		Vacant
Title next held by
Henry Ashley
Preceded by Custos Rotulorum of Dorset
1552?–1582 		Succeeded by
Peerage of England
New creation Viscount Howard of Bindon
1559–1582 		Succeeded by

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