In 1774 who named Norfolk Island after Mary Howard Duchess of Norfolk?
Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1773) abandoned after the deaths of Thomas and his half-brother Edward in 1763 and 1767 respectively. The Duchess died in 1773. Her marriage had been childless and her husband survived her. According to the astronomer William Wales, she had asked the explorer Captain James Cook to named an island after her. He had not heard about the Duchess's death when he discovered a suitable one which he named Norfolk Island in her honour. Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1773) Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Mary Blount; ( 1712 – 1773), was a British noblewoman after whom Norfolk Island, a
Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1773) Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (died 1773) Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Mary Blount; ( 1712 – 1773), was a British noblewoman after whom Norfolk Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, was named. The youngest of three daughters of Edward Blount (d. 1726) of Blagdon, Paignton in Devon, by his wife Anne Guise, a daughter of Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet. She was a co-heiress of her father's property. Born into an exiled Roman Catholic family, she spent her adolescence and early years of marriage on the continent. On 26 November 1727, she married Edward Howard, who