Flora Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk


The Duchess of Norfolk
Duchess of Norfolk, 1877 engraving
BornFlora Paulyna Hetty Barbara Clifton
(1854-02-13)13 February 1854
Mayfair, London, England
Died11 April 1887(1887-04-11) (aged 33)
Arundel Castle, Sussex
NationalityBritish
Noble familyHoward family
Spouse(s)
(m. 1878)
Issue1
FatherCharles Abney-Hastings, 1st Baron Donington
MotherEdith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun

Flora Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Clifton; 13 February 1854 – 11 April 1887) was a British noblewoman, philanthropist, and convert to Catholicism. Her 1878 marriage to Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk "was the event of the fashionable world" and covered widely in the press. They had one child, a severely disabled son, before she died aged 33.