Howard, Thomas, 2nd Earl of Arundel
Owner Id2736
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1585-1646
Other Information2nd Earl of Arundel (14th in ODNB); Fourth Earl of Surrey, and First Earl of Norfolk (ODNB).
Variant NamesArundel, Graf von
Arundel, Thomas of
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel
Norfolk, Thomas Howard of
Surrey, Thomas Howard of
Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of
Other Identifierhttp://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00577018
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Activity
Start (year)1586
End (year)1646
NoteSecond (or fourteenth, according to ODNB) Earl of Arundel, fourth earl of Surrey, and first earl of Norfolk. Son of Roman Catholics and grandson of Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk executed in 1572. Educated at Westminster and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the most important art and book collector of his age. In 1636, during a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, he purchased at Nuremberg the collection of Willibald Pirckheimer. Some time after his death his grand-son, Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1684), presented some of the manuscript to the College of Arms, but the bulk of the library to the Royal Society (1666/67), which sold part of them (in 1873 to Quaritch). What the Society had retained was sold by auction at Sotheby's on 1924, after the British Museum had selected a few items it lacked (Seymour De Ricci, 1960, p. 25; L.L. Levy, Uncovering the Arundel Library, 1998; ODNB; Clark's slips). [A. Panzanelli]
[Bod-Inc Index of Owners:] see DNB (which gives date of birth as 1586); Robinson, Dukes of Norfolk, 97-116; on Arundel as a patron and a collector see also David Howarth, Lord Arundel as a Patron and Collector 1604-1646: A Study in Motive and Influence (Cambridge, 1978), and idem, Lord Arundel and his Circle (New Haven and London, 1985); Richard Ovenden, `Thomas Howard, second Earl of Arundel (1585-1646)', in Pre-Nineteenth-century British Book-collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 213 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1999), 155-63.
BMC V, [to be added to] p. 219: IA.20150a; p. 231: IC.20238; p. 259: IC. 20718; p. 458: IC.23278; p. 583: IA.25090a; p. 595: IA.19745; p. 596: IB.21850; p. 597: IB.22731.
BMC VI, p. 662: IA.27527; p. 753: IA.26545b; p. 779: IA.26651; p. 782: IC.26691.
BMC VII, p. 920: IA.29989; p. 922: IA.30050; p. 922: IA.30052; p. 923: IA.30018; p. 924: IA.30034; p. 926:IA.30086; p. 975: IB.31126a; p. 999: IA.31365; p. 1008: IC.31458; p. 1009: IC.31476, IC.31470; p. 1010: IC.31498; p. 1015: IC.31569; p. 1019: IC.31625; p. 1020: IA.31651, IC.31655, IC.31656; p. 1125: IA.36875.
MARC Area Codee-uk
Profession / Type of InstitutionPolitician
CharacterisationAristocracy
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