![]() ![]() She described it as ‘a kind of journal of every transaction of any moment in which I had been engaged’ on account of the properties of her two young sons. ![]() It had been kept by Baroness Howe between 1798 when her husband died, until 1813 when Penn, by then her only surviving son, left her guardianship. He was named Richard William Penn and she called him Penn.Ī few years ago a small leather-covered notebook was given to me with Memorandums for my dear Penn scratched faintly on the cover. Only one son lived on into old age and he became Earl Howe. She had two sons and two daughters of whom three died early, aged 3 months, 16 and 29. She married Viscount Curzon’s eldest son Penn Assheton Curzon in 1787 and there are two portraits of her in Penn House by J.W. He had no sons and she was allowed to inherit his earlier barony and so became Baroness Howe in her own right. Sophia Charlotte Howe was the eldest of three daughters of Admiral Earl Howe. ![]() It was described by a contemporary as ‘chaste and elegant’. ![]() This next monument to his daughter-in-law is also by Chantrey although much smaller. A previous article focussed on the large marble monument to Viscount Curzon (1730-1820) by Sir Francis Chantrey. ![]()
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