One of 10 children, Howard was the third of four sons of
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, and Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, daughter of the
1st Marquess of Stafford. His eldest brother,
George, succeeded their father as the 6th Earl of Carlisle in 1825, his elder brother
William Howard was a
Conservative MP, and his youngest brother, the Very. Rev.
Henry Howard, was
Dean of Lichfield. He had six sisters, including
Elizabeth, Duchess of Rutland. Howard, who commanded a squadron of the 10th Hussars in Vivian's Brigade, was killed leading a charge at the very end of the Battle of Waterloo. It is likely he was the last Anglo-Allied officer to be killed. He was buried at Waterloo, but on 3 August 1815 his body was disinterred and re-interred in
Streatham. In 1879, his remains were moved again and re-interred in the family mausoleum at
Castle Howard, Yorkshire. ==Family==