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'''Henry Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent''' [[OBE]] (30 October 1883 – 17 May 1962), was a British [[peerage|peer]].

==Biography==
FitzAlan-Howard was the only son of [[Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent]], second infancy-surviving son of [[Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk]], and Lady Mary Bertie (1859–1938), daughter of [[Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon]].

He served as a captain in the [[World War I|First World War]] and was wounded. After the war he was assistant private secretary from 1921 to 1922 to his father, the last [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]]. He succeeded to the viscountcy on his father's death in 1947, after which he became heir to the [[Dukedom of Norfolk]], which he was until his own death.

==Marriage and children==
He was married on 9 May 1922 to Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale (born 25 April 1898, died 1995), eldest daughter and heiress of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lt Col]] Philip Joseph Langdale, [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], [[Justice of the peace|JP]], [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]], of [[Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire]].<ref>Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 739, Baron Manton</ref> They were divorced in 1955, having had two daughters:
* [[The Honourable|Hon.]] Alathea Gwendoline Alys Mary Fitzalan-Howard (born 24 November 1923, died 5 March 2001), married Hon. Edward Frederick Ward, a younger son of [[William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley]].
* Hon. Elizabeth Anne Marie Gabrielle Fitzalan-Howard (born 26 January 1934, died 20 March 1997), married [[Vivian Naylor-Leyland|Sir Vivyan Edward Naylor-Leyland, 3rd Baronet]].

Alathea's wartime diaries were published in 2020 as ''The Windsor Diaries''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Howard |first=Alathea Fitzalan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SP_cDwAAQBAJ |title=The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret |date=2020-10-08 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-5293-2811-0 |language=en}}</ref>

==Death==
Lord FitzAlan of Derwent died on 17 May 1962, aged 78, at which time the family home was 12 [[Montagu Square]], his taxable estate probated at {{GBP|81307|1962|round=-5|about=yes|long=no}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales) |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ |access-date=2023-09-13 |website=probatesearch.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> The viscountcy became extinct on his death.

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