abstract:Lieutenant-General Thomas Howard (1684 – 31 March 1753) was an officer of the British Army and the ancestor of the family of the present Earls of Effingham.
Meanwhileathome, troubleis brewing in the form ofwhispered accusationsofanaffairinvolvinghisyoungbride, CatherineHoward, and the ambitiousThomasCulpepper.
He has to cheat a bit to engineer this result: neither Thomas Cranmer nor Thomas Wriothesley died in the reign of Henry VIII, and ThomasHoward, Duke of Norfolk, although condemned, was miraculously reprieved.
The study was a collaboration with Prof Richard Marggraf Turley of the English and creative writing department and Prof HowardThomas from the Institute for Biological and Environmental Studies (Ibers).