James Howard (Whig politician)

The Honourable James Kenneth Howard (5 March 1814 – 7 January 1882), was a British Whig politician.

A member of the Howard family, he was the fourth son of Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk, by the Honourable Elizabeth Jane, daughter of James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne.[1] He succeeded his elder brother Viscount Andover as Member of Parliament for Malmesbury in 1841, a seat he held until 1852.[2] From 1851 to 1882 he served as a Commissioner of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues.

Howard married Lady Louisa, daughter of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, in 1845. He died in January 1882, aged 67. Lady Louisa died in June 1906. Their grandson was the explorer and politician Charles Howard-Bury.[1]