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Margaret Catherine ''Marged'' Stepney Howard Stepney (London, 20 January 1913-London, 22 January 1953), of Cilymaenllwyd, Llanelly, and Chase End, Compton Avenue, Hampstead Lane, London,<ref>Deed Poll, May 1952</ref> was the daughter of Sir Stafford by his second wife, ''Alcyone'' Cowell-Stepney. She married in 1933 Patrick Wyndham Murray-Threipland (1904-1957), only son of Colonel [[William Murray Threipland]], had one son and divorced in 1938. In later life she was a friend and patron of [[Dylan Thomas]].
 
====Younger Son====
Captain Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard, (3 September 1915-1991). High Sheriff of Cumbria in 1979. Changed his surname from Howard-Stepney to Howard by deep poll in August 1950, on inheriting the family estates in Cumbria, which included [[Greystoke castle]].<ref>London Gazette, 29 August, 1950, signed by his half-brother Algar Howard, Garter, College of Arms, London. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39006/page/4402/data.pdf</ref> He married, firstly, Ursula Priscilla Marie Gabrielle, daughter of Colonel Sir [[Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet|James Nockells Horlick]], 4th Bt., on 15 July 1936 (they divorced in 1940), and secondly, Mary Gracia, daughter of George Wilder Neville, of Portsmouth, Virginia and New York City, on 24 October 1940.
He stood, unsuccessfully, twice for Parliament in the Liberal interest, in [[South Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)|south Gloucestershire]] in 1950 and in 1951 the [[Penrith and The Border (UK Parliament constituency)|Penrith and the Border constituency]]. He was however a parish and county councillor, chairman of Penrith and Border Liberal Party, chairman of the Ullswater Outward Bound Trust, served on the Lake District Planning Board and the Ullswater Preservation Society,<ref>[[Cumberland & Westmorland Herald]], 14 February 2004.</ref> and was High Sheriff of Cumbria in 1979.
By his first wife he had the GCHQ operative and mathematician Nicholas Stafford Howard (20 Jul 1937-17 Feb 2008), of Johnby Hall, Penrith,<ref>Cumberland & Westmorland Herald: http://www.cwherald.com/a/archive/death-at-70-of-a-giant-of-mathematics-who-loved-music.304561.html</ref> and by his second he had two daughters and a further son Lt.-Col. Murray Bernard Neville Cyprian Howard, OBE (b 1942-), who inherited [[Greystoke Castle]].
 
He married, firstly, Ursula Priscilla Marie Gabrielle, daughter of Colonel Sir [[Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet|James Nockells Horlick]], 4th Bt., on 15 July 1936 (they divorced in 1940), and secondly, Mary Gracia (1913-2004), daughter of George Wilder Neville, of Portsmouth, Virginia and New York City, on 24 October 1940. Gracia became a trustee of the [[Shrewsbury Hospital]] in Sheffield in 1965.
By his first wife he had the GCHQ operative and mathematician Nicholas Stafford Howard (20 Jul 1937-17 Feb 2008), of Johnby Hall, Penrith,<ref>Cumberland & Westmorland Herald: http://www.cwherald.com/a/archive/death-at-70-of-a-giant-of-mathematics-who-loved-music.304561.html</ref> and by his second he had two daughters and a further son Lt.-Col. Murray Bernard Neville Cyprian Howard, OBE (b 1942-), who inherited [[Greystoke Castle]].
 
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