Emma Howard

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"In 1878 another granddaughter, Emma Alexander (1802-82) wrote from Australia:

‘The old Duke of Norfolk left no effort untried to prevail on our grandfather to accede to his wishes. The Duke came again and again in his carriage and Scarlet, I remember seeing him - to fetch grandpapa and took him the Herald’s office. My grandfather was obstinate and did not wish the trouble of a ducal coronet, certainly unmindful of the great injustice he was doing to his descendants as his sons pressed on him. He would not accede to the Duke’s behest and the Duke died and with him died our just heritage, for it was then too late.’"