Kenneth Alexander Howard, first earl of Effingham

(1767-1845)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Effingham, Kenneth Alexander Howard, Earl, 1767-1845 NRA: Howard Kenneth Alexander (1767-1845) 1st Earl of Effingham General DNB: Howard, Kenneth Alexander, first earl of Effingham (1767–1845), army officer LBT ID: LdEffin1 VIAF ID: 65778534 LOC ID: n98000914	B/BAP: 1767-11-29 DIED: 1845-04-21
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After distinguished service in the Peninsular War he was deputy earl marshal for the coronation of George IV, and created earl in 1837.
REFERENCES TO Kenneth Alexander Howard, first earl of Effingham: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 29 January 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 11 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1821 Found 1: ¶ 7 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIII: 1819-20 Ch I: 1821