at Westminster Cathedral, celebrated by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster; the congregation was led by Princess Alexandra of Kent representing the Queen and by Field Marshal Lord Bramall representing the Duke of Edinburgh. Catholicism He was Catholic but disagreed with the Church's view on birth control at a conference of Catholic teachers, "How can you ask a married couple to do it by thermometers and what not?", he asked, "My wife and I did that – it didn't bloody work. Has everybody got to have eight children like my mother?" Honours and awards Domestic Royal Victorian Chain (2000) Knight of the Order of the Garter (1983) Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1986) Companion of the Order of the Bath (1966) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1960) Military Cross Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex Foreign : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX : Grand Cross pro merito Melitensi Family Ancestry Family tree References External links |- 1915 births 2002 deaths People educated at Ampleforth College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford British Army personnel of World War II Grenadier Guards officers British Army major generals British Roman Catholics English Roman Catholics Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Order of the Bath Deputy Lieutenants of West Sussex 317 35 306 123 25 Barons Howard of Glossop Barons Beaumont Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk Earls Marshal Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Knights of the Garter Knights of the Order of Pope Pius IX Recipients of the Military Cross Recipients of the Order pro Merito Melitensi King's African Rifles officers 20th-century Roman Catholics 21st-century Roman Catholics Earls of Norfolk (1644 creation) Eldest sons of British hereditary barons Military personnel from London