Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk

Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Suffolk in 1757.Maria Constantia Hampden-Trevor, daughter of Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden, who died on 7 February 1767 giving birth to their only child: In 1771, he was appointed a Privy Counsellor (PC) and briefly served as Lord Privy Seal before becoming Secretary of State for the Northern Department under Lord North from 1771 to 1779.In this capacity, he secured the use of Hessian and Hanoverian mercenaries to help suppress the American Revolution.In the same capacity he helped to secure the survival of Sweden as an independent nation by counteracting Russia's plan to undo the Revolution of Gustavus III in 1772.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biography of an earl or countess in the Peerage of England is a stub.
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