Euan Euan Palmer Howard

Background

Strathcona is the eldest son of Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, and his wife the Honorary Diana Evelyn, daughter of Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst.

Education

Eton College; Trinity College.

Career

Howard succeeded his father in the barony in 1959 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. He served under Edward Heath as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1973 to 1974 and as Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force in 1974. After the Conservatives lost power in 1974 he was Joint Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords between 1976 and 1979.

When the Conservatives returned to office in 1979 under Margaret Thatcher, Howard was appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, a post he held until 1981.

He lost his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Acting 1999.

Achievements

• He was educated at King"s Mead, Seaford, Eton, Trinity College, Cambridge, and McGill University, Montreal, and served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1947, achieving the rank of Lieutenant.