Frederick Howard (British Army officer)
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Major Hon. Frederick Howard (6 December 1785 – 18 June 1815) was a British Army officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo. He is the "young, gallant Howard" mentioned in Lord Byron's poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage".
One of 10 children, Howard was the third of four sons of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, and Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Stafford.[1] His eldest brother, George, succeeded their father as the 6th Earl of Carlisle in 1825, his elder brother William Howard was a Conservative MP, and his youngest brother, the Very. Rev. Henry Howard, was Dean of Lichfield. He had six sisters, including Elizabeth, Duchess of Rutland.[2]
Howard, who commanded a squadron of the 10th Hussars in Vivian's Brigade, was killed leading a charge at the very end of the Battle of Waterloo. It is likely he was the last Anglo-Allied officer to be killed.[3] He was buried at Waterloo, but on 3 August 1815 his body was disinterred and re-interred in Streatham. In 1879, his remains were moved again and re-interred in the family mausoleum at Castle Howard, Yorkshire.[1]
