Howard was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk.

It was created in 1559 for Thomas Howard, second son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.

Robert Howard was the fifth son of Thomas Howard, first earl of Suffolk by his second wife, Catherine.

Thomas Howard was a younger son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, by his second marriage to Agnes Tilney.

He was the 9th son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire and his wife Elizabeth.

Edmund Howard, born about 1478, was the third son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his first wife, Elizabeth Tilney.

He was the second son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire.

Born the son of Thomas Howard and his wife Mary, Howard was commissioned into his father's regiment (later the 24th Regiment of Foot) in 1725.

He was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Stafford.

Philip was a son of Thomas Howard and Barbara Musgrave.