Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow (died 7 March 1807), née Alice Forward, was an Anglo-Irish peeress.
She was the daughter and heiress of William Forward of Castle Forward, County Donegal, by his wife Isabella Stewart.John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (H. Colburn, 1845). On 11 August 1755 she married the politician Ralph Howard, who was later created Baron Clonmore and Viscount Wicklow. Her husband died in 1789.
On 5 December 1793 she was created suo jure Countess of Wicklow in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (H. Colburn, 1845). Upon her death in 1807 she was succeeded by her eldest son, Robert Howard, who had already succeeded to his father's titles.
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