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HENRY HOWARD, EARL of (1517?-1547).-Poet, _s._ of Thomas H., 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was _ed._ by John Clerke, a learned and travelled scholar, and sec. to his _f._ He became attached to the Court, was cup-bearer to the King (Henry VIII.), ewerer at the Coronation, and Earl Marshall at the trial of Anne Boleyn. In 1542 he was made a Knight of the Garter a few weeks after the execution of his cousin, Queen Catherine Howard. He suffered imprisonment more than once for being implicated in quarrels and brawls, did a good deal of fighting in Scotland and France, and was the last victim of Henry's insensate jealousy, being beheaded on a frivolous charge of conspiring against the succession of Edward VI. The death of Henry saved Norfolk from the same fate. S. shares with Sir Thomas Wyatt (_q.v._) the honour of being the true successor of Chaucer in English poetry, and he has the distinction of being, in his translation of the _AEneid_, the first to introduce blank verse, and, with Wyatt, the sonnet. The poems of S., though well known in courtly circles, were not _pub._ during his life; 40 of them appeared in _Tottel's Miscellany_ in 1557. He also paraphrased part of Ecclesiastes and a few of the Psalms. The Geraldine of his sonnets was Elizabeth Fitzgerald, _dau._ of the Earl of Kildare, then a lonely child at Court, her _f._ being imprisoned in the Tower. SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH (1802-1864).-Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, who was in business as a solicitor, but not succeeding, started in 1831 the _Sporting Magazine_. Subsequently he took to writing sporting novels, which were illustrated by John Leech. Among them are _Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour_, _Ask Mamma_, _Plain or Ringlets_, and _Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds_.