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Scrope Howe
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He was knighted on 11 March 1663, and was created Master of Arts of Christ Church, Oxford, on 8 September 1665. From March 1673 to July 1698 he sat in parliament as Member of Parliament 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 having 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 information for speaking against the Duke of New York" Howe made a humble submission, and on the following day the indictment was withdrawn.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, and was succeeded by Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe.
His father, John Grobham Howe, was the Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire. They had three children:
John Howe, died young
Honorary Anabella Howe (1674–1720), married George Golding of Poslingford in 1706
Margaret Howe, married Captain
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Juliana Alington (d 10 September 1747), the daughter of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington, by whom he had four children:
Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (1700–1735)
Honorary
Mary Howe (d 12 September 1749), married first Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and second Honorary John Mordaunt
Honorary Judith Howe (d 2 July 1780), married Thomas Page of Battlesden, son of Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet
Honorary
Anne Howe, married Colonel Charles Mordaunt, son of Honorary
Lewis Mordaunt and grandson of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt.
Membership
Cavalier Parliament. Exclusion Bill Parliament. Habeas Corpus Parliament.
3rd Parliament of Great Britain]
He was the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Nottinghamshire from 1673 to 1685 and January 1689 to 1691, and from 1710 to 1713.
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