Military officer who served under Cornwallis in the American War of Independence; he succeeded a cousin in the title in 1783 and was colonel of the 70th Regiment of Foot

REFERENCES TO John Howard, fifteenth earl of Suffolk:

Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, 13 April 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)