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'''Charles Francis Arnold Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow''' (5 November 1839 – 20 June 1881) was an [[Anglo-Irish]] peer.
==Biography==
Howard was the eldest son of Rev. Hon. Francis Howard, the third son of [[William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow]] and Eleanor Caulfeild.<ref name = Burke>''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953: 'Wicklow'.</ref><ref name = Cracroft>[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/wicklow1793.htm ''Cracroft's Peerage''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002020215/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/wicklow1793.htm |date=2015-10-02 }}, 'Wicklow, Earl of (I, 1793 - 1978)' (Accessed 26 May 2016).</ref> He was educated at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], before purchasing a commission as a [[Cornet (rank)|Cornet]] in the [[11th Hussars]] on 18 December 1860. On 24 January 1865 he purchased a promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|Lieutenant]] and later transferred to the [[9th Lancers]].<ref name = Hart>Lt-Col [[Henry George Hart|H.G. Hart]], ''The New Annual Army List, and Militia List'' (various dates).</ref> He served as [[Aide-de-Camp]] to the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] between 1864 and 1866. On 11 December 1871 he was appointed [[Colonel (United Kingdom)#Honorary Colonel|Honorary Colonel]] of the [[Wicklow Militia]] ([[Wicklow Artillery Militia]] from 1877).<ref name = Burke/><ref name = Hart/><ref> [https://books.google.com/books?id=u0IIAAAAQAAJ Maj E.B. Evans, ''An Outline of the History of The County Wicklow Regiment of Militia'', published by the Officers of the County Wicklow Militia, 1885, pp. 44–5.]</ref>
In 1869 his uncle, [[William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow|William Howard]], died, and Howard succeeded to his titles. In 1872 he was elected as an [[List of Irish representative peers|Irish representative peer]] and assumed his seat on the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] benches in the [[House of Lords]].<ref name = Burke/><ref name = Cracroft/> Between 1874 and 1879 Lord Wicklow was State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.<ref name = Burke/>
He did not marry, and was succeeded by his younger brother, [[Cecil Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow|Cecil Howard]], following his death in 1881.<ref name = Burke/><ref name = Cracroft/> Much of his life was spent defending himself against the legal challenge against him by Ellen Howard, wife of his late half-brother, William.
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