Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe


Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire was an English politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire from 1673 to 1685 and January 1689 to 1691, and from 1710 to 1713.

Life

He was born the eldest son of John Grobham Howe and educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he was awarded M.A. on 8 September 1665. His father was the MP for Gloucestershire. His brothers were John Grobham Howe, Charles Howe and Emanuel Scrope Howe. He was knighted on 11 March 1663,
From March 1673 to July 1698 he sat in parliament as M.P. for Nottinghamshire. Howe was an uncompromising whig. On 5 December 1678 he carried up the impeachment of William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford. In June 1680 Howe, Lord Russell, and others met together with a view to deliver a presentment to the grand jury of Middlesex against the Duke of York for being a papist, but the judges had notice and dismissed the jury before the presentment could be made. On 23 January 1685 he appeared before the king's bench and pleaded not guilty to an allegation of speaking against the Duke of York. Howe made a humble submission, and on the following day the indictment was withdrawn.
He took a part in bringing about the Glorious Revolution, and with the Earl of Devonshire at Nottingham declared for William of Orange in November 1688. In 1693 he was made surveyor-general of the roads, and in the same year was appointed, in succession to Elias Ashmole, comptroller of the accounts of the excise, an office which he appears to have afterwards sold to Edward Pauncfort.
On 16 May 1701, Howe was created Viscount Howe and Baron Glenawley in the Irish peerage, which did not entitle him to enter the House of Lords. In fact he represented Nottinghamshire again in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1710 to his death.
He died in 1713 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe.

Family

In 1674, he married Lady Anne Manners, the daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland. They had three children:
In 1698, he married Hon. Juliana Alington, the daughter of William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington, by whom he had four children: