Emanuel Scrope Howe

Lieutenant-General Emanuel Scrope Howe (c. 1663-26 September 1709), of Great Lodge Forest, Hampshire, was an English diplomat, army officer and Member of Parliament. He was the fourth son of John Grubham Howe of Langar in Nottinghamshire; his older brother, Scrope Howe, was a prominent Whig politician and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Howe in 1701.

Howe was appointed a Groom of the Bedchamber in 1689 as reward for his support for William of Orange, and held the office throughout his reign. He was also given a commission in the 1st Foot Guards, and served in Flanders where he was wounded at the Siege of Namur. He purcheased a colonelcy in 1695, and was Colonel of the 15th Regiment of Foot until his death. He was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1704, Major-General in 1707 and Lieutenant-General in the year of his death, 1709. He was First Commissioner of Prizes from 1703 to 1705, and envoy-extraordinary to the Elector of Hanover between 1705 and 1709, successfully overcoming the strained relations between the English and Hanoverian reigning families to keep Hanover in the Grand Alliance.

He entered Parliament in 1701 as member for Morpeth, elected as a placeman on the Earl of Carlisle's interest to support the Court Whigs, and subsequently also represented Wigan. He is only recorded as having ever once taken part in a debate.

He married Ruperta, natural daughter of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, in 1695. They had three sons and two daughters.

External links

* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp51714 Engraving of Emanuel Scrope Howe at the National Portrait Gallery]

References

* "Dictionary of National Biography"
* David W Hayton, Stuart Handley and Eveline Cruickshanks, "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
* Robert Walcott, "English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p9631.htm www.thepeerage.com]
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