Earl of Wicklow
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The Earldom of Wicklow was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1793 for Alice Howard, widow of the first Viscount Wicklow. The title became extinct upon the death of the 8th Earl in 1978. The earls bore the subsidiary titles of Viscount Wicklow (1785) and Baron Clonmore (1776), both in the Peerage of Ireland.
The 1st viscount was the son of the bishop of Elgin. It is unclear whether or how this family was related to the Dukes of Norfolk, the Earls of Suffolk and Berkshire, of Carlisle and of Effingham.
[edit] Viscounts Wicklow (1785)
- Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow (1726-1789)
- Robert Howard, 2nd Viscount Wicklow (1757-1815), inherited the earldom of Wicklow in 1807
[edit] Earls of Wicklow (1793)
- Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow (1736-1807) (born as Alice Forward)
- Robert Howard, 2nd Earl of Wicklow (1757-1815), elected a representative peer in 1800
- William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow (1761-1818)
- William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow (1788-1869), elected a representative peer in 1821
- Charles Francis Arnold Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow (1839-1881), elected a representative peer in 1872
- Cecil Ralph Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow (1842-1891), elected a representative peer in 1888
- Ralph Francis Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow (1877-1946), elected a representative peer in 1905
- William Cecil James Philip John Paul Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow (1902-1978)
