Her interest in arts drove her to restore Norfolk House in 1755. The Duchess was intelligent and assertive she was referred to as "My Lord Duchess" by Horace Walpole. As Roman Catholics whose immediate predecessors, the 8th Duke and his wife Maria Shireburn, had supported the Jacobite rising of 1715, Mary and Edward Howard were keen to express their support of the Protestant monarch King George II. The pair were socially active, using their position as the highest-ranking peers in the kingdom to promote religious tolerance. On 26 November 1727, she married Edward Howard, who in 1732 succeeded as the 9th Duke of Norfolk, upon the death of his older brother Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk. Born into an exiled Roman Catholic family, she spent her adolescence and early years of marriage on the continent. She was a co-heiress of her father's property. 1726) of Blagdon, Paignton in Devon, by his wife Anne Guise, a daughter of Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet. The youngest of three daughters of Edward Blount (d. 1712 – 1773), was a British noblewoman after whom Norfolk Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, was named.
Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Mary Blount ( c.
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