William Howard
British viscount
Died when: 66 years 29 days (792 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, FRS (30 November 1614 – 29 December 1680) was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and his wife, the former Alethea Talbot.
A Fellow of the Royal Society from 1665, he was a Royalist supporter before being falsely implicated by Titus Oates in the later discredited "Popish Plot", and executed for treason.
He was beatified as a Catholic martyr by Pope Pius XI in 1929.
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