Henry FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent

Henry Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent (30 October 1883 – 17 May 1962), was a British peer.

FitzAlan-Howard was the only son of the 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, second son of the 14th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Mary Bertie (1859–1938), daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon. Lady Mary descended from Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) and was a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family of British North America.

He served as a Captain in the First World War and was wounded. After the war he was Assistant Private Secretary from 1921 to 1922 to his father, the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He succeeded his father in the Viscountcy on the latter's death in 1947.

Marriage & progeny

Lord FitzAlan married on 9 May 1922 Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale (1898–1995), eldest daughter and heiress of Lt.Col. Philip Joseph Langdale, OBE, JP, DL, of Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire.^[1] They divorced in 1955, having had two daughters:

• Hon. Alathea Gwendoline Alys Mary (b.1923), who married Hon. Edward Frederick Ward, a younger son of William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley.
• Hon. Elizabeth Anne Marie Gabrielle (b.1934), who married Sir Vivyan Edward Naylor-Leyland, 3rd Baronet.

Death

Lord FitzAlan of Derwent died on May 17, 1962, aged 78. The Viscountcy became extinct on his death.

References

1. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.739, Baron Manton