Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton

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Henry Ernest Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (4 April 1870–9 March 1943) was a peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom.

Fowler was the only son and heir of Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton and Ellen Thorneycroft. He was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Wesleyan Methodist.

Fowler married Evelyn Henrietta Wrottesley, daughter of Arthur Wrottesley, 3rd Baron Wrottesley on 8 June 1910. She died in 1947.

Fowler succeeded to the title Viscount Wolverhampton, on the death of his father, 25 February 1911, The title had been created in 1908. The title became extinct on his death, without issue, on 9 March 1943.[1][2]

Arms[edit]

Coat of arms of Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton
Crest
Upon a rock a stork Argent holding in the beak a cross-moline Sable.
Escutcheon
Per pale Gules and Sable on a chevron between in chief two lions passant and in base a portcullis all Argent a rose of the first barbed and seeded Proper.
Supporters
Dexter a wolf Or charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon Gules thereon two keys in saltire wards upwards Argent sinister a Royal tiger Or striped Sable charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon Azure thereon an estoile Argent.
Motto
In Te Domine Speravi[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Henry Ernest Fowler Viscount Wolverhampton". familysearch.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Henry Ernest Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  3. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1921.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Wolverhampton
1911–1943
Extinct