21st Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire (1935-2022)
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The WIkipedia reported death date has a footnote leading to this article
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/cotswolds-author-jilly-cooper-mourns-7439447
which also says that he died "last week", so whoever edited the Wikipedia article didn't bother to read the source he or she cited as authority.
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Talking of the hero of her bestselling novel, Riders, Jilly Cooper said Mickey Suffolk was the ‘best of Rupert, but without the awful parts’
The 21st Earl of Suffolk, who has died aged 87, succeeded his father at the age of six and described his career in Who’s Who as “owns 5,000 acres”; his reticence was, perhaps understandable, since he was one of the models for Jilly Cooper’s hard-riding serial seducer Rupert Campbell-Black, but it hardly did justice to his achievement in creating, at his family seat, Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, one of the finest and most beautifully cared-for estates in England....
Michael John James George Robert Howard was born on March 27 1935, the eldest of three sons of Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, and Mimi, née Forde Pigott, a Chicago-born ballet dancer. At the time of his birth he was styled Viscount Andover.
He was proud of his family history, the House of Howard having been founded by John Howard, who was created Duke of Norfolk by Richard III (with whom he was slain at the Battle of Bosworth) in 1483. John Howard was directly descended from both King John and Edward I, and Suffolk liked to joke that he was “the last of the Plantagenets and the real King of England”.
The earldom of Suffolk has been created four times, lastly in 1603 by James I for Lord Thomas Howard, a naval commander and politician, and the second son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
The Earl’s second son, also Thomas Howard, was created Earl of Berkshire in 1626. When the direct line of the first Earl of Suffolk failed in 1745, the earldom was inherited by a distant cousin, the fourth Earl of Berkshire, who became the 11th Earl of Suffolk as well. (Mickey Suffolk was also the 14th Earl of Berkshire, but was known by the more senior title.)
Suffolk’s father, who had inherited the title aged 11 after his father was killed in the Mesopotamia campaign during the First World War, became known as “Mad Jack” on account of his refusal to do what was expected of a member of the landed aristocracy.
After a series of pre-war adventures sailing the seven seas and working as a jackaroo in Australia, during the Second World War the Earl was responsible for rescuing a team of French nuclear scientists and a large stockpile of heavy water – as well as considerable quantities of industrial diamonds – and shipping them to England in advance of the German invasion of France in 1940.
He then volunteered to form a unit to defuse faulty German bombs and mines. On May 12 1941, however, while he was attempting to defuse a bomb nicknamed Old Faithful (to recover the fuzes for instructional purposes), the device exploded, taking with it 14 people, including the Earl, and injuring 10 more. A few weeks later King George VI awarded Suffolk a posthumous George Cross for “conspicuous bravery”....
Lord Suffolk married, first, in 1960 (dissolved 1967), Simone Paulmier (née Litman), with whom he had a daughter who died in infancy, and secondly, in 1973 (dissolved 1980), Anita Fugelsang, with whom he had a son and daughter (Anita later married Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington). In 1983 he married, thirdly, Linda Viscountess Bridport, née Paravicini, the former wife of the 4th Viscount Bridport, with whom he had two daughters.
His third marriage was notably happy and harmonious and Linda played a key role in helping her husband care for the house, maintain its beautiful gardens and manage the estate, improving its finances while preserving its historic character. Though farming remained the most important activity, they developed the estate’s commercial side, including hosting corporate events and, since 2007, the annual Womad music festival.
The couple were generous hosts at Charlton Park and in his latter years Lord Suffolk became an excellent cook and a demon croquet player.
He is succeeded in the peerage by his son Alexander Howard, Viscount Andover, born in 1974.
The 21st Earl of Suffolk, born March 27 1935, died August 5 2022
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Custodian of Charlton Park who inspired Jilly Cooper’s caddish lothario Rupert Campbell-Black in her bestselling novel Riders
...Michael John James George Robert Howard was born in 1935. He was the eldest son of the 20th Earl of Suffolk. The family holds the fourth creation of a title which originally dated from the time of William the Conqueror. Their ancestor Thomas Howard, a son of the Duke of Norfolk, distinguished himself during the attack on the Spanish Armada and was granted the earldom in 1603.
His daughter, Frances, would later be at the heart of the Overbury poisoning plot scandal. The 9th Earl’s wife was the mistress of George II, who built Marble Hill House at Twickenham for her. The 11th Earl was already the 4th Earl of Berkshire. The more junior title had in fact been created for Thomas Howard’s second son; from 1745 the family retained both...
...In 1941 [his father] was killed together with 13 others at Erith marshes when [a] bomb exploded. He was posthumously awarded the George Cross.
His {mother] Mimi, an American-born dancer whose father had managed the Alhambra Theatre, was left to bring up her three sons in what were initially somewhat straitened circumstances. The family seat, Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, had been requisitioned as a hospital and the family was living in three of its rooms. The War Office had paid no rent. The countess applied for a war widow’s pension but was met with dusty answers from officials who did not believe anyone living in a stately home could be in genuine pecuniary need...
...His first marriage, from 1960 until 1967, was to Simone Paulmier (née Litman). They had a daughter, Lucinda, who died in infancy. After their divorce, he was married, from 1973 to 1980, to Anita Fuglesang. They had a son, Alexander, who inherits the titles, and a daughter, Katherine. He is also survived by his third wife, Linda (née Paravicini and formerly Viscountess Bridport), whom he married in 1983, and by their daughters Philippa and Natasha...
The 21st Earl of Suffolk and 14th Earl of Berkshire was born on March 27, 1935. He died on August 5, 2022, aged 87
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-earl-of-suffolk-obituary-wh7vddzqk