George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe Board of Governors of the BBC from 1980 to 1983 after being a governor for eight years. He was made a life peer 1 July 1983 with the title Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, of Henderskelfe in the County of North Yorkshire. Howard married Lady Cecilia Blanche Genevieve FitzRoy (born 13 May 1922, died 1974), a daughter of Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton, on 11 May 1949. They had four sons: Howard owned Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, which was televised in "Brideshead Revisited" in 1981. He died from cancer. George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe Major George Anthony Geoffrey
Howard County, Missouri County residents supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Ethnic German immigrants and descendants tended to support the Union. After the end of Reconstruction, whites enforced Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the county to maintain white supremacy. In the most violent period, at the turn of the 20th century, five African Americans were lynched in Howard County from 1891 to 1914: Olli Truxton, Frank Embree, Thomas Hayden, Arthur McNeal, and Dallas Shields. Howard County tied with Pike County for the highest rate of lynchings in the state. The county continued to be developed for agriculture and is still