Social Victorians/People/Suffolk

Also Known As

• Family name: Howard
• Earl of Suffolk, Earl of Berkshire
  • Henry Charles Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk, 11th Earl of Berkshire (14 August 1876 – 31 March 1898)
  • Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk (31 March 1898 – 21 Apr 1917)
• Viscount Andover
  • Henry Charles Howard (1851 – 14 August 1876)
  • Henry Molyneux Paget Howard (14 August 1876 – 31 March 1898)
• Countess of Suffolk
  • Daisy (Marguerite Hyde) Leiter Howard (26 December 1904 – )

Timeline

1868 December 2, Henry Charles Howard and Mary Eleanor Lauderdale Coventry married.

1897 July 2, Friday, the Earl and Lady Suffolk as well as Daisy (Marguerite Hyde) Leiter attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1904 December 26, Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk and Daisy (Marguerite Hyde) Leiter married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Earl and Countess of Suffolk

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball Henry Charles Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk (at 203) sat at Table 11, escorting Lady Rothschild in to the first supper seating. Lady Mary Suffolk (at 538) also attended:

• "the Countess of Suffolk wore the garb of a former countess, who lived in 1766."

The Countess of Suffolk in 1766 was Maria Constantia Hampden-Trevor, Countess of Suffolk (1743 – 8 February 1767).

Miss Daisy Leiter. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Daisy Leiter

Daisy Leiter (at 684), who would marry Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk later, in 1904, also attended.

John Thomson's portrait of "Marguerite Hyde ('Daisy', née Leiter), Countess of Suffolk when Miss Leiter" in costume is photogravure #231 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Miss Leiter," with a Long S in Miss.

Daisy Leiter was not mentioned in any press reports, but her portrait is in the commemorative album of portraits.

Demographics

• Nationality: Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, British; Daisy (Marguerite Hyde) Leiter Howard, American

Family

• Henry Charles Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk, 11th Earl of Berkshire (10 September 1833 – 31 March 1898)
• Mary Eleanor Lauderdale Coventry (25 September 1847 – 31 October 1928)

1. Lady Mary Muriel Sophie Howard (1 March 1870 – 19 February 1938)
2. Lady Eleanor Mabel Howard (11 February 1873 – 9 March 1945)
3. Lady Agnes Isabel Howard (30 June 1874 – 16 October 1970)
4. Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk (13 September 1877 – 21 April 1917)
5. Lady Katherine Millicent Howard (10 September 1883 – 1 April 1961)
6. Hon. James Knyvett Estcourt Howard (1 May 1886 – 5 December 1964)

• Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk (13 September 1877 – 21 April 1917)
• Daisy (Marguerite Hyde) Leiter (1880–1968)

1. Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk (2 March 1906 – 12 May 1941)
2. Hon. Cecil John Arthur Howard (24 June 1908 – 1985)
3. Lt.-Cdr. Hon Greville Reginald Howard (7 September 1909 – 1987)

Relations

• Daisy (Marguerite Hyde) Leiter and Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon were sisters.