Henry Howard (MP for Penrith)

Henry Charles Howard (17 September 1850 – 4 August 1914) was a British politician.

A member of the influential Howard family headed by the Duke of Norfolk, he was the eldest son of Henry Howard, son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard, younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. His mother was Charlotte Caroline Georgina, daughter of Henry Lawes Long and Catharine Long, while Sir Stafford Howard and Esmé Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, were his younger brothers. He entered Parliament for Penrith in December 1885, but only held the seat until July the following year. Initially a Liberal, he disagreed with William Ewart Gladstone's Irish policy and joined the Liberal Unionists. He resided at Greystoke Castle in Cumberland.

Howard married Lady Mabel Harriet McDonnell, daughter of Mark McDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim, in 1878. He died in August 1914, aged 63. Lady Mabel, who was appointed a CBE in 1920, died in December 1942.

A portrait commissioned after Howard's death was unveiled at Newton Rigg College (which he founded) in 2012, and is in the collection of The Courts, Carlisle.