Lady Howard Stepney

Lady Howard Stepney

He married secondly, in 1911, Catharine Meriel Cowell-Stepney, only child of Sir Emile Algernon Arthur K. Cowell-Stepney, 11th/2nd and last Baronet, by hon. Margaret Warren, fourth daughter of the second baron de Tabley. After Howard's death, at the age of 64 in 1916, Lady Howard served the remainder of his term as Mayor of Llanelly. She was a JP from 1920; a Carmarthenshire County Councillor; and a Dame of the Order of St. John. She lived at Cilymaenllwyd, Llanelly, and at Woodend, South Ascot. Her telephone numbers were Llanelly 2 and Ascot 37. She was a member of the Ladies' Hyde Park and Bath clubs.[7] She was granted authority, by royal licence, to take additional surname of Stepney in 1922.[7] The headstones that marked the Howard Stepney and Murray-Threipland pet cemetery at Cilymaenllwyd are now at Fingask Castle.