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Family and Education
b. 3rd s. of Sir William Howard (d. 28 Jan. 1642) of Naworth Castle, Cumb. and Mary (d. 28 Jan. 1639), da. of William, 4th Lord Eure of Malton Castle, Yorks.; bro. of Charles Howard*.C142/774/15; Foster, Yorks. Peds.; CP; MI, St Peter, West Firle, Suss. educ. G. Inn 7 Aug. 1662.G. Inn Admiss. m. 23 Apr. 1668, Elizabeth (bur. 29 Nov. 1693), da. and h. of Sir Robert Newton, 1st bt., of London, citizen and grocer, wid. of Sir John Baker, 3rd. bt., of Sissinghurst, 1s.Foster, Yorks. Peds.; Westminster Abbey Regs. ed. J.L. Chester, 216; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xcii), 102. Kntd. 27 May 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 226. d. 14 Apr. 1686.Life and Times of Anthony Wood ed. A. Clark, iii. 183.
Offices Held

Military: capt. and (by 1667) brevet col. Life Gds. Jan. 1660–85.Castle Howard Archives, J5/3/3 (Sir Philip Howard’s pprs.); CCSP iv. 526, 572; CSP Dom. 1667, p. 262; CSP Dom. 1670, p. 2; Dalton, Eng. Army Lists, ii. 2.

Local: commr. militia, Yorks. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) by Oct. 1660–d.;C220/9/4. Westminster 28 Aug. 1665–d.;C231/7, p. 267. Kent 15 July 1672–d.C231/7, p. 419. Commr. poll tax, Westminster 1660;SR. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 31 Aug. 1660;C181/7, p. 37. assessment, Cumb. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Kent, Westminster 1672, 1677, 1679; Mdx. 1672, 1677; N. Riding 1679; subsidy, Cumb., Carlisle 1663.SR. Dep. lt. Kent by 1668–?Twysden Lieutenancy Pprs. (Kent Recs. x), 64. Farmer, excise, S. Wales May 1671-May 1672.CTB iii. 829, 1231. Recvr. hearth tax, Kent Mar. 1671;CTB iii. 733. assessment, London and Mdx. Mar. 1677.CTB v. 430.

Central: member, Royal Fishery Co. 25 Sept. 1677–?d.CTB vi. 2.

Colonial: gov. Jamaica Dec. 1684–d.CSP Col. America and W. Indies, 1681–5, pp. 751–2.

: of Leicester Fields, Westminster and Kent., Sissinghurst.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HOWARD, Philip (d. 1686), of Leicester Fields, Westminster, and Sissinghurst, Cranbrook, Kent.

Will
7 Apr. 1686, cod. 8 Apr. 1686, pr. 3 June 1686.PROB11/383, f. 244v.
Estates
inc. a house at Sissinghurst, Kent, a town house in Denham Buildings, Scotland Yard, St Martin-in-the-Fields (which either replaced or complemented his residence in Leicester Fields) and, by 1686, property in Jamaica.Add. 2723, f. 88v; PROB11/383, f. 244v; CSP Dom. 1670, p. 154; 1673-5, p. 11; Survey of London, xvi. 210-11. At his d. his debts were probably in excess of £10,000.Castle Howard Archives, J5/1/1-11.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Charing Cross, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. (1661-4);Survey of London, xvi. 230. New Southampton Buildings, Westminster (1673).R. Blome, Britannia (1673), 401.
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