Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

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Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (born November 26, 1923 - † June 16, 2018 ) was a British conservative politician.

Life

Euan Howard was the eldest son of Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal and his wife Diana Evelyn Loder, daughter of the British lawyer, entrepreneur and conservative politician Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, who died in 1936 . He attended King's Mead School in Seaford in England , Eton College in Eton and Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, and in Canada McGill University in Montreal . From 1942 to 1947 he served in the Royal Navy , attaining the rank of lieutenant.

After the death of his father, Howard inherited his baron on February 22, 1959 and became a conservative member of the House of Lords . Under Prime Minister Edward Heath , he served from 1973 to 1974 as Conservative General Manager in the House of Lords and from January to March 1974 as Undersecretary of State for the Air Force. After the Conservatives lost power (1974), he was vice chairman of the opposition in the House of Lords from 1976 to 1979. When the Conservatives, led by Margaret Thatcher , returned to the government bank in 1979, he served as Minister of State for Defense from May 1979 to January 1981. After the House of Lords Act was passed in 1999 , he lost his seat in the House of Lords.

Euan Howard's first marriage was since February 20, 1954 with Lady Jane Mary, ten years his junior, daughter of Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave . They had two sons and four daughters, but divorced in June 1977. In February 1978 Howard married Patricia, b. Thomas, widow of John Middleton. The heir to his baron is his eldest son Donald Alexander Euan Howard (born June 24, 1961).

literature

  • Charles Kidd, David Williamson (Eds.): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage . St Martin's Press, New York 1990.

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predecessor Office successor
Donald Stirling Palmer Howard Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
since 1959 		current owner of the title
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Euan, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howard, Donald Euan Palmer, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1923
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2018