Henry FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent


Henry Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, was a British peer.

Biography

FitzAlan-Howard was the only son of Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, second infancy-surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Mary Bertie, daughter of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon.
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 in the viscountcy on his father's death in 1947.

Marriage and children

FitzAlan was married on 9 May 1922 to Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale, eldest daughter and heiress of Lt Col Philip Joseph Langdale, OBE, JP, DL of Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire. They divorced in 1955, having had two daughters:
Lord FitzAlan of Derwent died on 17 May 1962, aged 78, at which time the family home was 12 Montagu Square, his taxable estate probated at. The Viscountcy became extinct on his death.