PHILIP HOWARD (1557-95), 1st earl of Arundel, eldest son of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, executed for high treason in 1572, and of Lady Mary, daughter and heiress of Henry Fitz alan, 12th earl of Arundel, was born on June 28 1557. He was mar ried in 1571 to Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Dacre, Lord Dacre (1566). On the death of his maternal grandfather in Feb. 1580 he became earl of Arundel. In 1582 his wife joined the Church of Rome, and was committed to the charge of Sir Thomas Shirley by the Queen. He was himself suspected of disloyalty, and was regarded by the discontented Roman Catholics as the centre of the plots against the Queen's government, and even as a possible successor. In 1583 he was with some reason suspected of com plicity in Throgmorton's plot and prepared to escape to Flanders, but his plans were interrupted by a visit from Elizabeth at his house in London, and by her subsequent order to confine him self there. In Sept. 1584 he became a Roman Catholic and made another attempt to leave England. He was then brought before the Star Chamber and condemned to fine and imprisonment for life. He was released for a time, but again arrested on a charge of high treason and condemned to death. The sentence was not executed, and he died in the Tower on Oct. 19 1595. Arundel wrote three treatises on Virtue. In 1929 he was beatified.