Caroline Howe was one of ten children of Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (1699-1735) and Charlotte von Kielmansegg. In 1742 she married John Howe (1707-1769) of Hanslope in Buckinghamshire.
She was described in her old age as, "a very extraordinary woman, born in 1720 and still living in Grafton-street; who, though deaf, still talks, reads, writes, and plays at cards, at ninety-three, with all the spirit and life of a girl, dresses in powdered hair, triple ruffles, furbelowed gowns, and is a fine model of the costume of the old Court. She has never married since the death of Mr Howe, and it does not appear that she ever had any children."
(Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1815, Vol 9, p. 527)
She was described in her old age as, "a very extraordinary woman, born in 1720 and still living in Grafton-street; who, though deaf, still talks, reads, writes, and plays at cards, at ninety-three, with all the spirit and life of a girl, dresses in powdered hair, triple ruffles, furbelowed gowns, and is a fine model of the costume of the old Court. She has never married since the death of Mr Howe, and it does not appear that she ever had any children."
(Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1815, Vol 9, p. 527)
Caroline Howe was one of ten children of Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (1699-1735) and Charlotte von Kielmansegg. In 1742 she married John Howe (1707-1769) of Hanslope in Buckinghamshire.
She was described in her old age as, "a very extraordinary woman, born in 1720 and still living in Grafton-street; who, though deaf, still talks, reads, writes, and plays at cards, at ninety-three, with all the spirit and life of a girl, dresses in powdered hair, triple ruffles, furbelowed gowns, and is a fine model of the costume of the old Court. She has never married since the death of Mr Howe, and it does not appear that she ever had any children."
(Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1815, Vol 9, p. 527)
She was described in her old age as, "a very extraordinary woman, born in 1720 and still living in Grafton-street; who, though deaf, still talks, reads, writes, and plays at cards, at ninety-three, with all the spirit and life of a girl, dresses in powdered hair, triple ruffles, furbelowed gowns, and is a fine model of the costume of the old Court. She has never married since the death of Mr Howe, and it does not appear that she ever had any children."
(Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1815, Vol 9, p. 527)
Inscription
THE HONBLE CAROLINE, WIDOW OF JOHN HOWE ESQ, OF HANSLOP IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, AND SISTER TO THE LATE EARL AND THE PRESENT VISCOUNT HOWE, DIED 29TH JUNE 1814, IN HER 93RD YEAR.
Gravesite Details
Inscription on the floor of the church quoted from History of Hertfordshire,
by John Edwin Cussans (London: 1881), vol 3, page 317.
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