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Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl of Berkshire, GC FRS (2 March 1906 – 12 May 1941) was an English bomb disposal expert who was also an earl in the Peerage of England, belonging to the ancient Howard family. He was styled Viscount Andover until 1917. He is most famous for being responsible for rescuing a team of French nuclear scientists and the entire stockpile of heavy water that existed in the world at the time from France to England in the face of the imminent French defeat in 1940. ==Early life== He was the son of Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, and his American wife, the former Margaret Leiter ("Daisy"), sister of Lady Curzon and daughter of the American businessman Levi Leiter. The 19th Earl was killed in World War I at the Battle of Istabulat, Iraq. After leaving the Royal Naval College, Osborne, at 15, he attended Radley College, but quit in 1923 to join the windjammer Mount Stewart as an apprentice officer. After his return from a round the world voyage, he was commissioned in the Scots Guards but was later asked to resign from his post by his superiors because of his "wild ways". In 1926 he returned to Australia; where he first worked as a Jackaroo and later owned a large farm jointly with Captain McColm, who had been Master of the Mount Stewart.〔The Passing Parade, John Doremus, Evenings with George Illich - Radio 2CH, 20:42AEDT, 6 December 2010.〕 In 1934, he married Chicago-born ballet dancer〔 Mimi Forde-Pigott, by whom he had three children: * Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk (born 1935) * Hon. Maurice David Henry Howard (born 3 November 1936), married Vicky Summers in 1998 * Hon. Patrick Greville Howard (born 18 August 1940), married Mary Johnson in 1966 and has issue The Earl enrolled at Edinburgh University, graduating three years later with a first-class honours degree in chemistry and pharmacology. In his early twenties, the Earl was made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. The Nuffield Institute of Medical Research at Oxford University offered him a research post in the area of "explosives and poisons".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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