Howard of Effingham, CHARLES, LORD

Howard of Effingham, CHARLES, LORD, was born in 1536, and in 1573 succeeded his father, who was the ninth son of the second Duke of Norfolk, and who in 1554 had been raised to the peerage and been made Lord High Admiral. In 1585 that dignity was conferred on the son, and as such in 1588 he commanded gloriously against the Armada (q.v.). For his share with Essex in the Cadiz expedition (1596) he was created Earl of Nottingham, and in 1601 he put down Essex's mad insurrection. In 1619 he resigned his office in favour of Buckingham; and he died 14th December 1624. Contrary to the common opinion, there is no proof that he was ever a Catholic (Notes and Queries, 1851, 1888).