William Howard, Viscount Andover

Lord Andover married Lady Mary Finch, daughter of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford on 6 November 1736. They resided at Elford Hall, Staffordshire, and had four children:^[2]

• Henry (16 May 1739 – 7 March 1779), who in 1757 succeeded his grandfather in the earldoms
• Hon. Catherine (born 6 July 1741 – 1826), died unmarried
• Hon. Elizabeth Mary (buried 12 June 1742), died in infancy^[3]
• Hon. Elizabeth (14 May 1744 – ), died in infancy
• Hon. Frances (27 February 1747 – 16 September 1818),^[4] married 1783 Richard Bagot (later Howard), son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet.^[1]

Andover was killed in an accident on 15 July 1756. He was returning to Lichfield through Fisherwick Park when his young horses were frightened; he was thrown from the chaise carriage and landed on his head, dying instantly. He was buried at Elford.^[3]

His father died the following March and was succeeded by Andover's only son, Henry, as the 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire. Henry died in March 1779; his posthumous son, the 13th Earl, lived only two days.^[5]

His estates at Elford, Castle Rising, and Ashtead were eventually inherited by his only surviving child, Hon. Frances Howard. In 1783, she married Richard Bagot, fifth son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet and brother of Lord Bagot. Richard took the name Howard upon his marriage.^[6] They had two sons who died in infancy and one daughter, Mary (9 May 1785 – 10 October 1877), who in 1807 married Col. Hon. Fulke Greville Upton, who also took the name Howard.^[7][8]

Mary and Fulke Greville Howard had no children and after her death in 1877 aged 92, the estates were therefore dispersed among Howard and Bagot relatives. Elford Park was left to her great-nephew Howard Francis Paget (son of Francis Edward Paget and grandson of Sir Edward Paget and Louisa Frances Bagot) and Castle Rising to Hon. Greville Theophilus Howard, younger son of the 17th Earl of Suffolk.^[9] Ashtead Park was sold by the Bagot family in 1880, along with its entire contents, including paintings by Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Anthony van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, and Salvator Rosa.^[10]