Hubert Howard

Hubert John Edward Dominic Howard (23 December 1907 – 17 February 1987) was an English intelligence officer who lived in Italy. Early life Howard was born in Washington, D.C., on 23 December 1907. He was educated at Downside School in Somerset and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the third of five sons of the diplomat Sir Esmé William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, by his wife, Lady Isabella Giovanna Teresa Gioachina Giustiniani-Bandini. Among his brothers were Francis Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Penrith and journalist Henry Anthony Camillo Howard. His father later served as His Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of America from 1924 to 1930. His father was the fourth son of MP Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle (eldest son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard, a younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk). and the former Charlotte Caroline Georgiana Long (eldest daughter of Henry Lawes Long of Hampton Lodge and Lady Catherine Walpole, a daughter of Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford). His maternal grandparents were Sigismondo Niccolo Venanzio Gaetano Francisco Giustiniani-Bandini, 1st Prince Bandini-Giustiniani and 8th Earl of Newburgh and Maria Sophia Angelica Massani (daughter and co-heiress of Cavaliere Giuseppe Maria Massani of Rome). Career Early in 1940, Howard volunteered for the British expeditionary force to Finland. In 1941, he was assigned to the Allies' Psychological Warfare Branch (PWB) in Italy, with which he served as an intelligence officer throughout the Italian campaign.