James Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire

James Howard (dramatist)

James Howard (c. 1640 – July 1669)[1] was an English dramatist and member of a Royalist family during the English Civil War and the Restoration.

He was the 9th son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire and his wife Elizabeth. Howard wrote two comedies, All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple, (c.1667), and The English Mounsieur (1666). Both of these starred Nell Gwynn, the mistress of Charles II.[2]

Howard had three brothers who also wrote plays — Edward Howard, Colonel Henry Howard, and Robert Howard. Their sister, Elizabeth Howard, was married to John Dryden.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howard_(dramatist)

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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 28
  • by William Richard Morfill
• HOWARD, JAMES (fl. 1674), dramatist, was ninth son of Thomas Howard, first earl of Berkshire, and was brother of Sir Robert (1618?-1698) [q. v.], of Edward Howard [q. v.], and of Lady Elizabeth, who married Dryden (Collins, Peerage of England, ed. Brydges, 1812). He was the author of two comedies. 'All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple, a Comedy,' published in 4to in 1672, was first acted at the Theatre Royal on 20 Sept. and again on 28 Dec. 1667. According to Pepys the part of the heroine Mirida was taken by Nell Gwyn, and that of Philidor by Hart (Genest, i. 72, iv. 116). Langbaine says 'this play is commended by some for an excellent comedy.' Genest says the humour is 'of the lowest species.' Howard's second comedy, 'The English Mounsieur,' published in 4to in 1674, was first acted at the Theatre Royal 8 Dec. 1666. Nell Gwyn seems to have taken the part of Lady Wealthy, Lacy that of Frenchlove, and Hart of Wellbred. Pepys was present, and described the piece as 'a mighty pretty play, very witty and pleasant: and the women do all very well; but above all, little Nelly.' Pepys saw the comedy again performed on 7 April 1668 (Pepys. Diary, iii. 25, 420). Frenchlove, the main character, having recently returned from France, he affects all the habits of that country, and is amusingly drawn (cf. Genest, i. 66, x. 253-4). Langbaine adds: 'Whether the late Duke of Buckingham, in his character of Prince Volscius falling in love with Parthenope as he is pulling on his boots to go out of town, designed to reflect on the [i.e. Howard's] characters of Comely and Elsbeth, I pretend not to determine; but I know there is a near resemblance in the characters.' Howard is also said to have converted Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' into a tragi-comedy, 'preserving both Romeo and Juliet alive.' According to Downes's 'Roscius Anglicanus,' p. 22, Howard's adaptation was acted at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields by Sir William D'Avenant's company on alternate nights with the authentic version (Genest, History of Stage, i. 42). Howard's adaptation was not printed.
• [Collins's Peerage; Paget's Ashtead and its Howard Possessors, p. 39; Biographia Dramatica.]
• From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Howard,_James_(fl.1674)_(DNB00) _________________________
• Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire (8 October 1587 – 16 July 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1605 and 1622. He was created Earl of Berkshire in 1625.
• Howard was born in Saffron Walden, Essex, the second son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and his wife Catherine Knyvet. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge.[1] He was knighted in 1604. In 1605 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lancaster in a by-election. He was elected MP for Wiltshire in 1614. In 1621 he was elected MP for Cricklade. In 1621 he was created Baron Howard of Charlton, Wiltshire and in 1625 he was created Earl of Berkshire.
• Howard married Elizabeth Cecil, daughter and co-heir of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter in 1614. They had thirteen children:
  • Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire (1615–1679).
  • Mary Howard (1616–1679)
  • Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire (1619–1706).
  • Henry Howard (playwright)
  • William Howard
  • Sir Robert Howard (1626–1698)
  • Elizabeth Howard, married John Dryden
  • Colonel Philip Howard (1629–1717)
  • Frances Howard, who married Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness
  • James Howard
  • Algernon Howard
  • Edward Howard[2]
  • Diana Howard (1636–1713).
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_1st_Earl_of_Berkshire ______________________
• Thomas HOWARD (1° E. Berkshire)
• Baptised: 8 Oct 1587/8, Saffron, Walden, Essex, England
• Acceded: 7 Feb 1625, Charlton
• Died: 16 Jul 1669, London, Middlesex, England
• Buried: 20 Jul 1669, Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, England
• Notes: Knight of the Garter. Lord Howard of Charlton, Viscount Andover. Second son of Thomas, 1st Earl of Suffolk, and Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Knyvett of Charlton, Wiltshire. Member of Parliament for Wiltshire in 1614. Married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter, and niece of Viscount Wimbledon, in 1614. Designated in 1621/22 as the heir to his mother's Wiltshire estates and created Baron Howard of Charleton, Wiltshire. Male heir born 1615. Brother of Howard; brother-in-law of Salisbury; former brother-in-law of Essex: daughter was Pembroke's mistress. In 1625/26, created Earl of Berkshire.
• Father: Thomas HOWARD (1° E. Suffolk)
• Mother: Catherine KNYVETT (C. Suffolk)
• Married: Elizabeth CECIL (C. Berkshire) 26 May 1614
• Children:
  • 1. Charles HOWARD (2° E. Berkshire)
  • 2. Mary HOWARD (b. 1616 - d. 1679)
  • 3. Thomas HOWARD (3° E. Berkshire)
  • 4. Henry HOWARD (Hon.)
  • 5. William HOWARD
  • 6. Robert HOWARD (Sir) (m. Honora O'Brien)
  • 7. Elizabeth HOWARD
  • 8. Phillip HOWARD (Col) (b. 1629)
  • 9. Frances HOWARD
  • 10. James HOWARD
  • 11. Algernon HOWARD
  • 12. Edward HOWARD
  • 13. Diana HOWARD (b. 1631 - d. 1713)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HOWARD4.htm#Thomas HOWARD (1° E. Berkshire) ________________________
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• James Howard1
• M, #48974, d. 1669
• Last Edited=20 May 2010
• James Howard was the son of Thomas Howard. He married Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria FitzRoy, daughter of Charles II Stuart, King of Great Britain and Elizabeth Killigrew.1 He died in 1669.1 He was buried on 6 July 1669.
• Child of James Howard and Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria FitzRoy
  • 1. Stuarta Howard2 d. 1706
• Citations
• [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 256. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
• [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3815. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p4898.htm#i48974 ______________________________________
• Thomas HOWARD (Hon.)
• Born: 1621
• Died: BEF 10 Jun 1682
• Father: Theophilus HOWARD (2º E. Suffolk)
• Mother: Elizabeth HUME
• Married: Werburge Van Den KERCKHOVEN (dau. of Johannes Polyander gn. Van Den Kerckhoven, Heer Van Kerckhoven, Heenvliet en Sassenheim and Anna Van Wesick) ABT 1649
• Children:
  • 1. James (John) HOWARD (b. 1649 - d. 1669)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HOWARD4.htm#Thomas HOWARD (Hon.)1 _______________________
• Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria FitzRoy (c. 1650 – 28 July 1684) was one of the many acknowledged illegitimate children of Charles II of England.
• Her mother, Elizabeth Killigrew Boyle,[1] wife of Francis Boyle (afterwards Viscount Shannon in Ireland), had been a maid of honour to Charles II's mother, Queen Henrietta Maria.
• Charlotte married firstly James Howard, with whom she had a daughter, Stuarta. In 1672 she married William Paston, later the second Earl of Yarmouth, a member of the Paston family, and had issue. Both William and his father were in high favour with the Stuarts.[citation needed]
• Charlotte, Lady Yarmouth, died on 28 July 1684 in London and was buried at Westminster Abbey on 4 August 1684.
• With her first husband, James Howard (d. 1669), Lady Charlotte had a daughter:
  • Stuarta Werburge Howard (d. 1706); died unmarried Stuarta was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary II. She was nearly married to the 1st Earl of Portland, but their engagement was abandoned. This resulted in a duel between Lord Portland and her stepfather, Yarmouth.[citation needed]
• Charlotte had at least four more children by her second husband, William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth:
  • Lord Charles Paston (29 May 1673 – 15 December 1718), of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk Lord Paston was married to Elizabeth Pitt and had a daughter, Hon. Elizabeth Paston.
  • Lady Charlotte Paston (1675–1736) She married Thomas Herne of Haveringland Hall, Norfolk, and had a son, Paston Herne, whose illegitimate daughter Anne Herne married Sir Everard Buckworth (later Buckworth-Herne), 5th Baronet, and was the mother of Sir Buckworth Buckworth-Herne-Soame, 6th Baronet. Lady Charlotte was also married to a Major Weldron.
  • Lady Rebecca Paston (14 January 1680/1681–1726) She married Sir John Holland, 2nd Baronet; had issue of at least three children.
  • Hon. William Paston (1682–1711), a Captain in the Royal Navy; died unmarried
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Paston __________________________
• HOWARD, Hon. Thomas (1621-c.81), of Pall Mall, Westminster.
• bap. 8 July 1621, 2nd s. of Theophilus Howard†, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, by Lady Elizabeth Home, da. and coh. of George, 1st Earl of Dunbar [S]. m. by 1649, Walburga, illegit. da. of Jan Polyander van der Kerchhove, lord of Henvliet, Zeeland, 1s. d.v.p.1
• Offices Held
  • Col. of horse (royalist) c.1643-5; master of horse to the Princess Royal by 1647-Dec. 1660; capt. of horse, Dutch army 1647-at least 1656; lt.-col. of ft. Holland regt. 1665-74.2
  • Freeman, Woodstock 1673; commr. for assessment, Berks. 1673-9, Oxon. 1677-9, recusants, Oxon. 1675.3
• Howard’s father, as warden of the Cinque Ports, nominated him as court candidate for Rye before he was 19, but he was not elected, and when his father died a few months later, he was left virtually unendowed. The 3rd Earl sided with Parliament in the Civil War till he was impeached in 1647, but Howard fought as a Royalist. After the battle of Naseby he retired to Holland, where he was taken into the service of the Princess Royal and given a commission in the Dutch army. He made periodic visits to England, one of them in the company of the royal mistress, Lucy Walter. He was suspected of sending information to his brother-in-law, Lord Broghill (Roger Boyle), and in 1658 George Downing reported that he had ‘perfectly gained’ him. Sir Edward Hyde angrily denounced him as a spy, and his hopes of a peerage were dashed, but the King remarked only that he ‘earns his wages very easily, for all he informs is of his own invention’. Certainly the letters which Downing obtained from him cannot have been of much use to the Protectorate Government. At the Restoration a pension of £500 was settled on his wife, from whom he was living apart, but nothing was done for Howard himself until the outbreak of the second Dutch war, when he came over from Zeeland as second-in-command of the newly-formed Holland regiment. This was soon followed by the marriage of his only son to the King’s natural daughter by Lady Shannon, and his future as a courtier seemed assured. With his younger brother he was granted the right to levy a shilling for every ton of ship’s ballast in any Irish port, though the opposition of Dublin made this ineffective.4 .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/ho... ______________________________________