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'''Greville Patrick Charles Howard, Baron Howard of Rising''' (born 22 April 1941) is a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and, before the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]], was variously an Opposition Whip and [[Shadow Minister]] for Cabinet Office, for Treasury and for Culture, Media and Sport.
==Early life and career==
He was educated at [[Eton College]]. Between 1968 and 1970, he was Private Secretary to [[Enoch Powell]]. Howard was further Director of [[Keep Trust]] from 1980 to 1987, of [[Fortress Trust]] from 1989 to 1993, and is Director of Fortress Holdings since 1993.
==Political career==
On 4 June 2004, he was created a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Howard of Rising''', of Castle Rising in the County of [[Norfolk]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/ld200304/minutes/040616/ldminute.htm| title= Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords| author= House of Lords| date= 2004-06-16| work= minutes of proceedings| accessdate= 2006-12-05| url-status= dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716215929/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/ld200304/minutes/040616/ldminute.htm| archivedate= 2011-07-16}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=57312 |date=9 June 2004 |page=7175}}</ref>
He has been a councillor on [[King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council]] since 2003.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/greville-howard/32287
|title=Lord Howard of Rising
|work=[[House of Lords]] website
|accessdate=24 June 2010}}</ref>
A [[Westminster]] townhouse owned by Howard has been used at various times as a headquarters for [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] political campaigns, including [[Michael Portillo]]'s [[1995 Conservative Party leadership election|1995]] party leadership campaign, [[Boris Johnson]]'s [[2019 Conservative Party leadership election|2019]] party leadership campaign,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/19/boris-johnson-uses-sky-executives-townhouse-as-campaign-hq|title=Boris Johnson uses Sky executive's townhouse as campaign HQ|website=theguardian.com|date=19 July 2019|access-date=21 July 2022}}</ref> and most recently [[Liz Truss]]'s [[July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election|2022]] party leadership campaign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/liz-truss-comeback-tory-pm-run-off/|title=Liz Truss, comeback kid|website=politico.eu|date=20 July 2022|access-date=21 July 2022}}</ref>
==Family==
A member of the influential [[Howard family]], Howard is the son of [[Lieutenant-Colonel]] Henry Redvers Greville Howard (1911–1978), the son of Sir [[Charles Howard (Serjeant-at-Arms)|Charles Alfred Howard]], the second son of the Hon. Greville Howard, who was the second son of [[Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk]].<ref name=":0">Patrick W. Montague-Smith (ed.), ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2000), p. 1600.</ref> His mother is Patience, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Rice Iltyd Nicholl, TD (1880–1950), a solicitor, army officer and mason.<ref name=":0" /><ref>[https://archive-cat.magd.ox.ac.uk/records/P138 "Photograph Albums of Charles Nicholl, 1900–1903"], ''[[Magdalen College, Oxford]]''. Retrieved 27 July 2021.</ref>
Lord Howard of Rising has married three times. Firstly he married Zoe Walker, daughter of Douglas Walker, in 1968. Divorced in 1972, he married secondly, Mary Rose Chichester, daughter of [[Chichester baronets of Raleigh (1641)|Sir John Chichester, 11th Baronet]] in 1978. After her death in 1980, Howard married again to Mary Cortland Culverwell, daughter of Robert Culverwell, one year later. He has 2 sons and 1 daughter by his third wife.  Lord Howard's immediate family consists of 2 sisters.  The first is his full sister, Amanda Howard.  She married Simon Burton, heir to the Burton clothing company which subsequently became part of the Arcadia group.  His half-sister Katharine currently resides in Spain.  Her son (and therefore Howard's nephew) is the son of the famous 1960s bullfighter Miguel Mateo Salcedo.
Lord Howard is a descendant of [[William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel]], who built [[Castle Rising (castle)|Castle Rising]] in about 1138, and he still owns the castle remnants today.
==Arms==
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|escutcheon = Quarterly 1st Gules a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchee Argent on the bend an escutcheon Or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (Howard) 2nd Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or and in chief a label of three points Argent (Thomas of Brotherton) 3rd chequy Or and Azure (Warren) 4th Gules a lion rampant Or (Fitzalan) over all at the fess point a triple turreted tower Gold.
|crest = 1st issuant from a ducal coronet Or a pair of wings Gules each charged with a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchee Argent 2nd on a chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a lion statant guardant with tail extended Or ducally gorged Argent 3rd on a mount Vert a horse passant Argent holding in the mouth a slip of oak fructed Proper.
|supporters = On either side a lion Argent each charged with a triple turreted tower Gules.
|motto = Nous Maintiendrons<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=3072}}</ref>}}
==Notes==
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== References ==
* {{cite web
| url        = http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=32287
| title        = DodOnline
| accessdate        = 2006-12-05
| archive-url        = https://web.archive.org/web/20061010122917/http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=32287
| archive-date        = 2006-10-10
| url-status        = dead
}}
* {{cite web
| url        = http://www.thepeerage.com/p4904.htm#i49032
| title      = thePeerage
| accessdate = 2006-12-05}}
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