Background
FitzAlan-Howard was the only son of Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, second son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Mary Bertie (1859–1938), daughter of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon.
FitzAlan-Howard was the only son of Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, second son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Mary Bertie (1859–1938), 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.
Lord FitzAlan of Derwent died on 17 May 1962, aged 78.
The Viscountcy became extinct on his death.