Charles howard bio
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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
English politician and naval commander (1536–1624)
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, KG (1536 – 14 December 1624), known as Lord Howard of Effingham, was an English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I and James I. He was commander of the English forces during the battles against the Spanish Armada and was chiefly responsible for the victory that saved England from invasion by the Spanish Empire.
Early life: 1536–1558
[edit]Few details of Charles Howard's early life are known. He was born in 1536, and was the cousin of Queen Elizabeth. He was son of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham (c. 1510–1573) and Margaret Gamage (d. 18 May 1581), daughter of Sir Thomas Gamage.[1] He was a grandson of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. He was also the cousin of Anne Boleyn (Anne's mother was half-sister to Charles' father), and held several prominent posts during the rei
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Admiral Charles Howard (1536 - 1624)
Charles Howard, Baron of Effingham and Earl of Nottingham ©Charles Howard - better known as Lord Howard of Effingham - was an relaterat till elizabethansk tid courtier and admiral, best known for his role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada and his assault on the Spanish city of Cadiz.
Charles Howard was born in 1536. Through his father, William Howard, first Baron Howard of Effingham, he was related to Elizabeth I. In 1559, Howard was made ambassador to France and held a number of other tjänsteman positions, including commissioner at the rättegång of Mary Queen of Scots. In addition to his interests at court and in government, Howard was also a patron of the theatre. In 1576, a company of actors known as Lord Howard's dock was formed (they later became known as the Admiral's Men), and they are linked to the first performances of Shakespeare's 'Richard III'.
In 1573, Howard succeeded to his father's title. In 1585, he was appointed lord admiral of England, despit
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CHARLES HOUGHTON HOWARD
Charles Houghton Howard was one of the vanguards of American artists who introduced European surrealism and biomorphic expressionism into the U.S. art world. His work is not only a surrealistic representation of the mind’s journey into the unconscious, but also an exploration of the sensing and feeling of self. Born on January 2, 1899 in Montclair, New Jersey, Howard was the third son of a prominent family of architects, painters, and sculptors. When he was three his father, a successful architect in New York, moved the family to Berkeley, California, where he had been appointed supervising architect at the University of California. After graduating from Berkeley High School, Howard enrolled in the University of California and immediately joined the S. A. T. C. (Students’ Army Training Corps), with which he served until the WWI armistice in 1918. He re-entered the University of California in 1919 focusing on journalism. With hopes of one day bein